This rectangular enclosure, measuring approximately 50 metres on each side, was once surrounded by a double ring of defensive banks and ditches; a fortification typical of Anglo-Norman settlements in Ireland from the 13th and 14th centuries. Though nothing remains visible at ground level today, particularly when cereal crops cover the fields, the site’s outline was clearly marked on the 1839 Ordnance Survey map, preserving its memory in cartographic form.

The site occupies low-lying ground with a stream running northwest to southeast about 100 metres to the northeast, a strategic placement that would have provided both a water source and natural drainage for the moats. Such moated sites were typically constructed by Anglo-Norman colonists or wealthy Irish families as defended farmsteads, combining residential, agricultural, and defensive functions. The double-banked design suggests this was a particularly substantial example, possibly indicating the status or wealth of its medieval occupants.

Archaeological surveys conducted in the 1970s documented this site as part of a broader effort to catalogue Ireland’s medieval heritage. While the physical earthworks have been levelled by centuries of agricultural activity, the location remains an important piece of the medieval landscape of County Wexford, representing the complex patterns of settlement, defence, and land use that characterised Ireland during the later medieval period.