This roughly square enclosure, measuring approximately 50 metres on each side, sits about 35 metres northeast of the Acore River, which flows in a northwest to southeast direction through the landscape. Though the physical structure was levelled in 1963, modern satellite technology has revealed what the naked eye can no longer see; the outline of the monument and its surrounding defensive fosse.

The site’s most distinctive feature was its wide, deep fosse, a water-filled ditch approximately 4 metres wide that would have encircled the entire enclosure. These moated sites were typically constructed during the Anglo-Norman period in Ireland, serving as fortified homesteads for colonising families. The defensive ditch would have been both a practical barrier against attack and a symbol of status, marking the inhabitants as people of some importance in the medieval social hierarchy.

Today, whilst cattle graze where medieval inhabitants once lived and worked, the site continues to tell its story through aerial photography. Google Earth imagery from September 2019 clearly shows the ghostly outline of the enclosure as cropmarks; variations in vegetation growth that trace the lines of long-buried ditches and foundations. These marks appear during certain weather conditions when crops or grass grow differently over disturbed ground, revealing archaeological features that have been invisible from ground level for decades.