The monument sits on a gentle north-facing slope, though you’d be hard-pressed to spot any visible remains today. When mapped by the Ordnance Survey in 1841, cartographers recorded an embanked square enclosure measuring roughly 20 metres in length, suggesting this was once a substantial defensive structure.

Moated sites like this one were typically built between the 13th and 14th centuries, serving as fortified homesteads for Anglo-Norman settlers or prosperous Irish families. These earthwork enclosures, surrounded by water-filled ditches, provided both defence and status in medieval Ireland. The moat would have encircled a raised platform where timber or stone buildings once stood; everything from manor houses to agricultural structures that supported daily life in medieval Limerick.

Though time and agriculture have erased the physical monument, leaving the site completely levelled by the time archaeologist Edmund Barry inspected it in 1981, the flag irises remain as an unexpected memorial. These water-loving plants often flourish where old moats and ditches once held water, their purple blooms each spring quietly marking where medieval inhabitants once lived, worked, and defended their small corner of Ireland.