Located 340 metres southwest of another enclosure, this moated site measures approximately 39 metres north to south and 31 metres east to west. Though it never appeared on Ordnance Survey Ireland’s historic maps, modern aerial photography has revealed its ghostly outline in the landscape, with a field boundary now cutting through its eastern side.

The site first came to archaeological attention during surveys conducted ahead of the Curraleigh West to Limerick gas pipeline construction. Examination of aerial photographs from various sources, including OSI and BGE imagery, revealed the distinctive rectangular shape typical of medieval moated sites. These fortified homesteads, common throughout Ireland during the 13th and 14th centuries, typically housed Anglo-Norman settlers or prosperous Irish families who adopted Norman building practices.

What makes this particular site intriguing is its visibility across multiple decades of aerial photography. The cropmark appears clearly on orthophotographs taken between 2005 and 2012, and remains visible on Google Earth images captured in March 2016 and September 2020. These marks form when crops grow differently over buried archaeological features; the filled-in moat retains more moisture than surrounding soil, causing vegetation above to grow more vigorously and creating the telltale rectangular outline that archaeologists can spot from above.