Measuring roughly 6.2 metres north to south and 4.2 metres east to west, it is modest even by the standards of medieval domestic buildings, and the uncertainty around it is part of what makes it worth attention. A bawn, for context, is an enclosed courtyard or defensive enclosure typically associated with tower houses and fortified residences, and this one still contains, in its southeast corner, the remains of exactly such a tower house.

The two structures together suggest a small fortified complex, the kind of arrangement common across Connacht during the later medieval period, where a tower provided the principal residence and defence while ancillary buildings within the enclosure served domestic or agricultural purposes. Whether the rectangular structure in the northeast corner was a hall, a store, a stable, or something else entirely remains uncertain enough that it is catalogued only as a possible house of indeterminate date. That ambiguity is not a failure of the record so much as an honest reflection of what survives above ground. The site carries a preservation order under the National Monuments Acts, which at least ensures the question remains open for future investigation.