This square earthwork, measuring 32 metres on each side, is defined by a low earthen bank standing about 30 centimetres high and 3 metres wide. The site’s defensive features are still clearly visible; a broad, flat-bottomed ditch runs around the exterior base of the bank, whilst beyond this lies another low earthen bank that would have provided an additional layer of protection. The outer bank, roughly 9.5 metres wide overall, is particularly difficult to spot on the southwest side and has been lost entirely on the northwest where a modern road now runs alongside the monument.

The original entrance to the site appears to have been positioned midway along the northeast side, where a 6-metre gap in the outer bank corresponds with a slight dip in the main scarped edge. Today, the interior remains level and clear, making it easy to appreciate the site’s original square layout. Just 100 metres to the southeast stands a mound-barrow, suggesting this area held significance for multiple periods of human activity.

Moated sites like this one were typically constructed between the 13th and 14th centuries, serving as fortified farmsteads for Anglo-Norman settlers or prosperous Irish families. The combination of banks and ditches would have provided security for the inhabitants whilst the flat interior space accommodated domestic buildings, now long since vanished. Though modest in its current appearance, this earthwork represents an important piece of medieval settlement patterns in South Tipperary, when such defended homesteads dotted the Irish landscape.