This moated site measures approximately 30 metres on each side and dates back to medieval times, when such fortified homesteads dotted the Irish countryside. The raised platform is surrounded by substantial earthen defences; a broad bank roughly 4.5 metres wide that rises just over a metre above the interior ground level.

The defensive features of this site tell a story of careful medieval planning. A fosse, or defensive ditch, runs along the outer edge of the bank, measuring about 6.2 metres across though now only 30 centimetres deep after centuries of silting. Interestingly, the earthen bank is only intact from the northwest round to the south-southwest. On the remaining sides, from south-southwest to northwest, the original bank has vanished, though its position is marked by a later field boundary with a drainage ditch running along its western edge. This field bank follows precisely where the inner base of the missing medieval bank would have stood.

The site’s original entrance can still be identified as a 1.7-metre gap in the northern bank, facing north-northwest. Traces of the outer fosse remain visible from the south-southwest to southeast sections, though time and farming have obscured much of the defensive ditch elsewhere. These moated sites were typically home to Anglo-Norman settlers or Gaelicised Norman families during the 13th and 14th centuries, serving as fortified farmsteads that provided both security and status in medieval Ireland’s often turbulent landscape.