This fortified structure, measuring 7.5 metres east to west and 6.35 metres north to south, sits about halfway along the northern wall of what was once a defensive bawn. The tower’s western wall incorporates windows from an earlier building, possibly a stable, over which it was partly constructed. Historical records from 1540, when the monastery was suppressed during the Dissolution, mention two towers at this site; this surviving example is likely one of them.

The tower house retains several architectural features that reveal its defensive and residential purposes. Entry is gained through a pointed doorway made of rough-cut stone, which leads to a newel stair housed in an attached tower measuring 2.8 metres north to south and 2.45 metres east to west at the northern end of the eastern wall. The ground floor features a stone vault overhead, whilst a lintelled doorway provides access to the first floor, where visitors can still see a window on the north wall and a fireplace on the east wall, though the south and west walls have long since collapsed. The second floor preserves only a fragment of the north wall with its window embrasure.

Between the ground and first floors, the newel staircase once connected to a doorway that led onto the wall-walk of the surrounding bawn, though this defensive walkway no longer survives. The tower’s position, just 20 metres from the river and backed by a low ridge about 120 metres to the south, would have provided both strategic advantages and pleasant views across the Boyne valley. Today, these ruins offer a tangible connection to Ireland’s monastic past and the tumultuous period of the Reformation that saw many such religious houses disbanded.