The site features a tower house, catalogued in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork as entry CO024-109001, which would have served as both a defensive structure and residence for a local lord during the medieval period. These tower houses were particularly common across Ireland from the 15th to 17th centuries, built by both Gaelic and Anglo-Norman families as symbols of power and practical strongholds.

What makes this site particularly interesting is the reference to its bawn, a fortified enclosure that would have surrounded the tower house. These defensive walls typically enclosed courtyards where livestock could be protected during raids and where various domestic buildings would have stood. According to the archaeological inventory, the bawn area and the land immediately west of it have since been repurposed as a farmyard, showing how these historic sites often evolve to meet the practical needs of successive generations.

The transformation from medieval fortress to working farm is a common story across rural Ireland, where ancient stones find new purpose in field boundaries, farm buildings, and cattle sheds. While the farmyard may have obscured some of the original bawn’s features, this layering of history; from medieval stronghold to modern agriculture; tells its own story about the continuity of life on this Cork landscape. The site was formally documented in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Volume 4: North Cork, published in 2000, with updates added as recently as 2009 to reflect ongoing research into these important heritage sites.