Though it only appears marked on the 1940 edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map as a roughly 50 by 45 metre feature, the site remains visible today as an overgrown rectangular area measuring 31 metres east to west and 19 metres north to south. The location was carefully chosen; tucked into a natural fold at the eastern edge of a plateau, with a small stream running north to south about 300 metres to the east.

The site’s most striking feature is its substantial flat-bottomed moat, which ranges from 6 to 9 metres wide and plunges 1.5 to 2 metres deep, completely encircling the central area. Along the western and northern sides, an inner earthen bank still stands, measuring 4.6 metres wide on the western side with an interior height of about half a metre. These defensive earthworks would have originally protected whatever structures stood within, likely a fortified farmstead or small manor house typical of Anglo-Norman settlement patterns in medieval Ireland.

An intriguing rectangular projection, measuring 20 by 7 metres, extends from the western end of the site’s northern side, possibly indicating the location of an entrance causeway or additional defensive structure. While time and vegetation have obscured many details, the site’s substantial earthworks demonstrate the considerable effort medieval inhabitants invested in creating secure homesteads in the Irish countryside. This information comes from the Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford, published in 1996 and updated through ongoing research by Michael Moore and others studying Ireland’s medieval heritage.