It is a windmill, or rather what remains of one, and the fact that it survives to its full height of around seven metres, across three storeys, makes it something of a rarity. Most Irish windmill towers were robbed for stone or collapsed into themselves long ago; this one did neither.

The tower appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, already described plainly as a windmill, which places its working life at least in the early nineteenth century if not earlier. The structure itself is modest but precise: an external diameter of roughly 4.9 metres, an internal diameter of just over three metres, with a small recess on the ground floor just south of the eastern doorway, and three windows on the upper floors to let in light for whatever work was carried out inside. A storehouse sits about ten metres to the southeast, and it carries a date of 1882 along with the carved initials "PKM W" on a stone in the north gable. Those initials point to a particular owner or family active in the later nineteenth century, though exactly who they were is not recorded in surviving accounts of the site. The 1882 date also suggests the storehouse was added, or at least rebuilt, some decades after the windmill itself was already established, which hints at a working agricultural complex that remained in use well after the age of wind-powered milling had largely passed elsewhere in Ireland.