A bawn is the walled enclosure that typically surrounded an Irish tower house or castle, used variously for sheltering livestock, housing outbuildings, or providing a defensive perimeter. The structure within this one is modest in scale, measuring roughly 8.5 metres north to south and 3.9 metres east to west, yet it raises questions that have not been fully resolved.

The structure was first formally noted during a site inspection in August 1980. Later research, published by FitzPatrick in 2019, identified what was described as a square enclosure in the same general area, though at considerably larger dimensions, approximately 21 metres east to west and 15 metres north to south. Whether these two observations describe the same feature measured differently, or two distinct elements of the bawn's interior, remains an open question. The relationship between them points to the kind of interpretive uncertainty that frequently attaches to ancillary castle structures, the secondary buildings and enclosures that were functional rather than monumental, and which tend to leave fainter traces than the tower houses they once served.