Just 12 metres to the west-northwest, you’ll find a companion ringfort, suggesting this area held some significance for medieval settlers. What appears today as a faint rectangular earthwork visible from aerial photography was once a more substantial defensive structure, likely dating to the Anglo-Norman period when such moated sites were commonly built across Ireland.

The site consists of a rectangular enclosure measuring approximately 27.5 metres east to west and 22 metres north to south, defined by an earthen bank with an external water-filled ditch, or fosse. The bank and fosse remain most intact along the southern and western sides, where you can still make out their original form. Time and agricultural activity have taken their toll on the northern side, where the bank has eroded to little more than a slope with a counterscarp at its base, whilst quarrying has largely destroyed the eastern section.

Unlike many moated sites which have clear entrance points, this example shows no obvious gateway, which raises interesting questions about how it was accessed and used. The interior appears featureless today, though archaeological investigation might reveal postholes, hearths or other evidence of the timber buildings that typically stood within such enclosures. These moated homesteads were usually occupied by Anglo-Norman colonists or Gaelicised Norman families, serving as fortified farmsteads that provided both security and a statement of status in the medieval Irish landscape.