What remains of the dovecote here is only the northern arc of a circular stone tower, roughly seven metres in diameter and still standing to a height of five and a half metres, yet even this fragment preserves the internal architecture that made such structures work: rows of small nesting recesses cut into the wall, beginning about sixty centimetres above ground level and rising in vertical lines spaced roughly thirty centimetres apart. Each niche has a narrow entrance that opens into a wider interior chamber, with thin stone flags serving as the dividing lintels between them. A dovecote, in the medieval and early modern tradition, was a practical farm building rather than a decorative one, kept to supply a household with eggs, meat, and fertiliser throughout the year. The corbelled stonework towards the top of the surviving wall, where courses are laid in a slightly projecting, stepped arrangement, suggests some care in the original construction, and the exterior was finished in harling, a roughcast lime render.

The site sits within a landscape that was once the manor of Dunfert, and a 1307 extent of lands belonging to Joan, Countess of Gloucester and Hertford, gives a vivid inventory of what stood here in the early fourteenth century: a hall, a chamber, a dairy, a grange, a bretage (a timber defensive structure placed beyond the gate), and various wooden buildings. The jurors who compiled that extent also noted a dovecote, which the historian G. H. Orpen, writing in 1909, suggested may have occupied the same spot as this structure. The standing building itself is probably not that old. Two bricks were observed in the fabric of the wall, a detail that points towards a sixteenth or seventeenth century date for construction, since brick use in rural Irish buildings becomes more common in that period. The medieval record and the physical remains may therefore represent two different phases of the same long-lived idea, a working bird house positioned within or near the enclosures of a functioning agricultural estate.