What a nineteenth-century observer recorded as a structured, legible complex of stone foundations has since retreated beneath ferns and scrub, and by 2016 the site revealed almost nothing to the eye.

Writing between 1849 and 1851, a surveyor named Moore described what he found here as a quadrangular fort, meaning a roughly rectangular enclosure defined by a fosse (a defensive ditch) and a rampart. What made it unusual was not the earthwork itself but what lay inside: the foundations of around half a dozen small stone-built cells, arranged in an orderly way and constructed from what Moore called regular masonry. He believed the stonework to be as old as the earthen defences surrounding it. The site is now classified as a possible moated site, a type of medieval enclosure typically consisting of a raised central platform surrounded by a water-filled or wet ditch, associated broadly with Anglo-Norman settlement in Ireland from the twelfth century onwards. Whether the internal cell-like structures Moore recorded belong to that same medieval tradition or represent something earlier remains an open question, and one that the vegetation has made harder, not easier, to answer with time.