The site occupies a strategic position, with a stream running north to south approximately 250 metres to the west, placing it in an ideal defensive location typical of Norman fortifications. Though quarrying has damaged the northwestern side, enough of the structure survives to reveal its original design and purpose.

The summit of the mound presents a distinctive rectangular platform measuring 26 metres from northeast to southwest and 20 metres from northwest to southeast, rising between 3 and 5 metres above the surrounding landscape. A defensive bank, roughly 2 metres wide and standing 2 metres high on the interior, runs along the northern and eastern edges of the platform. This elevated position would have once supported a wooden tower or palisade, providing both a residence and a stronghold for the local Norman lord.

At the base of the mound, archaeological features typical of motte construction are still visible. A fosse, or defensive ditch about 1 metre wide, encircles the structure, accompanied by an outer bank that measures 3 metres in width. This outer bank varies in height; up to 1.6 metres on the interior side and 0.5 metres on the exterior. While later field boundaries have incorporated parts of this defensive bank from the northeast to southeast, and agricultural activity has removed sections elsewhere, the surviving earthworks clearly demonstrate the site’s medieval military architecture. The Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford, compiled by Michael Moore and updated in 2012, suggests this earthwork represents a motte, one of many Norman fortifications that once dotted the Irish landscape following the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century.