This moated site measures approximately 30 metres from north to south and 26 metres from east to west, enclosed by an earthen bank that rises to about 30 centimetres on the interior side and 40 centimetres on the exterior. Beyond the bank runs an external fosse, or defensive ditch, roughly 30 centimetres deep, which would have originally been filled with water to create the moat that gives these sites their name.

What appears to have been the original entrance can still be traced at the northeast corner, where a six-metre-wide break in the bank corresponds with a ramp leading down into the fosse. This arrangement would have allowed controlled access to the enclosed area whilst maintaining the defensive advantages of the moat. The interior of the site remains level, though any structures that once stood here have long since vanished, leaving only the earthworks to mark their presence.

This site was catalogued as number 33 in Barry’s 1981 survey of moated sites in Ireland, part of a broader effort to document these distinctive medieval earthworks. Moated sites like this one typically date from the Anglo-Norman period, roughly the 13th to 14th centuries, when settlers constructed these defended homesteads across the Irish countryside. They represent a fascinating blend of defensive architecture and agricultural settlement, marking places where medieval families lived, farmed, and shaped the landscape we see today.