The site consists of a roughly rectangular enclosure measuring 58 metres east to west and 42 metres north to south, defined by earthen banks on three sides; the western, northern and eastern boundaries; whilst the southern edge is marked by a distinctive scarp. Along the northern side, traces of an old defensive ditch or fosse can still be detected, and the banks themselves show evidence of stone construction materials, particularly visible at the northern section. A possible entrance appears to have existed at the northeast corner.

The interior of the enclosure reveals intriguing features that hint at its former importance. A bank running north to south divides the eastern half of the site, creating separate spaces within the fortification. Most notably, aerial photography from the Cambridge University Collection captured what appears to be a circular structure tucked into the northeast angle of the enclosure. This feature may represent the foundations of a small tower house or castle, suggesting the site could have served as a bawn; a fortified enclosure typically associated with tower houses in medieval and early modern Ireland.

Archaeological surveys have classified this site as potentially containing the remains of an unrecorded castle and its associated bawn, though its exact history remains uncertain. The presence of defensive earthworks, stone building materials, and the circular structure visible from above all point to a site of some local significance, possibly dating from the late medieval or early modern period when such fortified homesteads were common throughout the Irish midlands. Its disappearance from maps after 1881 suggests the site had already fallen into ruin by the late 19th century, leaving only these earthwork traces for modern archaeologists to puzzle over.