Today, neither feature leaves any mark on the surface. What remains is essentially an absence, a place defined almost entirely by what can no longer be seen.

The structures were associated with a motte and bailey, a form of early medieval fortification introduced to Ireland by the Normans, typically consisting of a raised earthen mound topped with a wooden or stone tower alongside a lower enclosed courtyard, the bailey, defended by a ditch and palisade. Writing in 1916, the historian Goddard Henry Orpen noted that in the north-west angle of the bailey, a faint ring in the ground appeared to mark the position of a tower or small circular building, with traces of a separate enclosure close by. His measurements for that enclosure, twelve feet by twelve feet, suggest something compact and functional rather than grand. Orpen recorded what was already, by his time, barely legible in the ground. Since then, even those faint traces have disappeared entirely.