The 1839 Ordnance Survey six-inch map depicted it as an embanked or moated enclosure measuring approximately 50 metres north to south and 45 metres east to west, its interior already overgrown by that time. By 1924, the site appeared on maps with a complete moat, slightly larger at about 60 by 55 metres, suggesting it remained a notable feature of the local terrain for nearly a century.

Positioned on a gentle west-facing slope, this medieval earthwork was typical of the moated sites that dotted the Irish countryside, likely dating from the Anglo-Norman period when such defensive homesteads were common. These rectangular enclosures, surrounded by water-filled ditches, served as fortified farmsteads for colonial settlers and prosperous farmers. The site was officially recorded as a moated site in the archaeological files in 1978, but by 1988 it had been completely removed, probably through agricultural improvement works that levelled many such earthworks across Ireland during the twentieth century.

Today, nothing remains visible at ground level in what is now pasture land, though another moated site survives about 110 metres to the southwest, separated by a land drain running from north-northwest to south-southeast. This neighbouring earthwork serves as a reminder of the medieval landscape that once characterised this part of Wexford, when moated sites formed part of a network of defended settlements across the county. The loss of the Wilkinstown site represents part of a broader pattern of archaeological erasure, where farming modernisation has claimed numerous historical earthworks that survived for centuries as landscape features.