It is the kind of structure that registers at first as a folly or a forgotten fortification, yet it was once an ordinary piece of working infrastructure, grinding corn for the surrounding agricultural community.

The tower is three storeys tall, with an internal diameter of roughly five metres at the base and an external diameter of around seven metres. Opposing doorways face east and west, and each floor carries two windows, an arrangement typical of Irish tower windmills, which needed carefully positioned openings to manage airflow and allow the miller to work across multiple levels. A foundation stone sits above the eastern doorway, but whatever inscription it once carried has been lost to weathering. The Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1839 and 1925 mark a windmill here as being in use, which is notable in itself; by the early twentieth century many Irish windmills had already fallen silent, rendered redundant by steam-powered and later diesel-powered mills. That this one was still operational into the 1920s suggests a degree of local reliance on it well beyond the Victorian period. Immediately to the north of the tower, a corn-drying kiln survives, a low stone structure used to dry harvested grain before milling, reducing moisture content so the millstones could work the crop cleanly. The two structures together give the site a coherent sense of its former purpose as a small but complete milling complex.