This moated site, located 110 metres east of a main watercourse that marks the boundary with Castlefarm townland, was first identified during the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986. The monument comprises a substantial rectangular area measuring 50 metres northwest to southeast and 48 metres northeast to southwest, defined by a water-filled ditch or fosse that would have once provided both drainage and defence for whatever structure stood within.

What makes this site particularly intriguing is its conjoined twin; a second, slightly smaller moated site directly to the southeast. These paired earthworks appear clearly on various aerial images taken between 2005 and 2017, though curiously, neither appears on Ordnance Survey Ireland’s historic maps. The land around them has been modernised with field drains and watercourses, yet these medieval features remain stubbornly visible from above, their geometric shapes standing out against the surrounding pastoral landscape.

Moated sites like these were typically constructed between the 13th and 14th centuries by Anglo-Norman settlers or prosperous Irish families. The rectangular platform within the moat would have supported a timber or stone house, with the surrounding water-filled ditch serving multiple purposes: defence, drainage in Ireland’s wet climate, and as a status symbol. The presence of two conjoined moated sites at Lodge suggests this may have been an especially significant settlement, perhaps indicating an expansion of the original homestead or the establishment of separate but related households.