The motte itself is a grass-covered earthen mound, roughly 12 metres across at its flattened summit and expanding to 33 metres at its base, rising between 6 and 6.4 metres high. Originally, it was surrounded by a defensive ditch, or fosse, which measured about 6.4 metres wide and varied in depth from 0.7 metres on the eastern side to 1.5 metres on the western side. An earthen bank once encircled most of the motte from north to southeast, measuring 10 metres wide at its base and standing 1.6 metres high, with a possible extension running westward for another 43 metres.

To the south of this defensive bank and west of the motte lay a raised bailey; a fortified courtyard typical of Norman castle design. This grassy platform measured 9 metres across at its top and 22 metres at its base, standing about 1.5 metres high. Unfortunately, much of the site has suffered over the years. Old quarrying activities had already damaged the western edge of the bailey by 1968, creating a depression 4 metres deep, and by 1999, all the original features except the motte itself and the quarry had been removed.

The proximity of Cruicetown’s parish church, situated just 80 metres southwest of the motte, suggests this was once an important local centre. The relationship between the church and the fortification hints at the typical Norman pattern of establishing both military and religious control over conquered territories. While time and human activity have erased much of the original defensive complex, the surviving motte continues to mark this spot as a place of medieval significance in the Meath landscape.