This sub-rectangular earthwork, measuring approximately 33 metres from north-northwest to south-southeast and 32 metres from east-northeast to west-southwest, presents itself as a series of levelled scarps and depressions that tell the story of centuries past. The site’s southeastern boundary is marked by a levelled scarp about 6 metres wide and 0.8 metres high, whilst to the west-southwest, the curved depression of an old field boundary helps define the monument’s extent. A farm track now runs along the northern edge where the earthwork has been levelled, and the eastern side slopes away gradually, though its surface remains notably uneven and lumpy.

The interior of the site reveals an irregular landscape dotted with two off-centre depressions towards the south-southeast; these features likely represent the backfilled pond that appeared on Ordnance Survey maps from the 1950s. This moated site doesn’t stand alone but forms part of a larger complex, directly connected to another moated enclosure on its east-northeast side. Historical mapping from 1952 to 1954 shows these as conjoined enclosures, with this western site appearing as a sub-rectangular area measuring roughly 48 by 32 metres, whilst its eastern neighbour takes on a smaller, D-shaped form.

The location of these earthworks appears to have been carefully chosen, situated about 100 metres southeast of a ringfort, suggesting this area held strategic or social importance during the medieval period. Moated sites like this one typically date from the 13th to 14th centuries and were often associated with Anglo-Norman settlement patterns in Ireland. They served as defended homesteads for wealthier farming families, with the surrounding moat providing both drainage and a degree of protection. Today, whilst tractors traverse where medieval inhabitants once entered, and the defensive moats have long since dried up, these lumpy, uneven earthworks continue to mark the Tipperary landscape as tangible links to Ireland’s complex medieval past.