This roughly circular mound measures about 22 metres across at its flat top, widening to 34 metres at the base, with steep sides rising just over 2 metres high. Though modest in scale compared to some of Ireland’s grander castle sites, this Norman fortification once commanded the surrounding undulating countryside, positioned strategically about 120 metres south of a river that flows east to west through the landscape.

The motte’s current state tells its own story of centuries of change. While nettles now cover much of the flat summit and scrub grows around its edges, the essential form of this defensive earthwork remains clearly visible. A small area of disturbance on the southwestern side suggests either historical damage or perhaps an old excavation, but otherwise the structure has survived remarkably intact. The surrounding tillage fields have seen more dramatic changes; those shown on the 1904 Ordnance Survey six-inch map to the north and south of the monument have since disappeared, leaving the motte as an isolated historical feature in the modern agricultural landscape.

These earthen mottes were typically built by the Anglo-Normans in the late 12th and early 13th centuries as they established control over newly conquered territories. Originally, a wooden tower or palisade would have crowned the summit, creating a defensive stronghold that could oversee the surrounding lands. Though the timber structures have long since vanished, the earthwork itself continues to mark this spot as a place of former military and administrative importance, a physical link to the centuries when such fortifications dotted the Irish countryside.