This raised earthwork, roughly oval in shape and measuring about 80 metres from northeast to southwest and 65 metres from southeast to northwest, rises approximately 3 metres above the surrounding ground. The 1837 Ordnance Survey map records it as Connaberry Moat, preserving its historical name for future generations.

Today, the flat summit of the moat hosts a working farm, with trees obscuring much of the original earthwork from view. While traces of an outer bank that once formed part of the site’s defences can be spotted in aerial photographs taken by archaeologist Leo Swan, these features remain invisible at ground level, hidden beneath centuries of agricultural use and natural overgrowth. Such moated sites were once common across medieval Ireland, serving as defended homesteads for Anglo-Norman settlers or prosperous Irish families.

The proximity to Dunsoghly Castle suggests this moat may have been part of the broader medieval landscape of power and settlement in north County Dublin. These earthworks typically date from the 13th to 15th centuries, when moated sites provided both practical defence and a display of status in the countryside. Though less dramatic than the stone castles that dot the Irish landscape, these earthen monuments tell an equally important story about how medieval communities lived, farmed, and defended themselves in rural Ireland.