This square enclosure, measuring roughly 36 metres east to west and 35.7 metres north to south, is defined by earthen banks that still stand about a metre high on the interior and reach up to 1.55 metres on their outer faces. The banks remain well preserved on the southern, western and northern sides, whilst the eastern section has been levelled over time, save for short, low sections at its northern and southern ends.

The site’s defensive fosse, or ditch, tells a story of both preservation and loss. On the northern side, the original ditch remains visible at about 0.4 metres deep, now skirted by a farm trackway. The eastern and southern sections of the fosse have been recently filled in, whilst a modern farm track follows the line of what would have been the western ditch. These moated sites were typical of Anglo-Norman settlement patterns in medieval Ireland, serving as fortified farmsteads for colonists who needed both agricultural productivity and defensive capabilities.

Local tradition speaks of a similar site approximately 100 metres to the southeast, suggesting this area may have once hosted multiple such fortified homesteads. First catalogued by Barry in 1981 and later included in the Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, this moated site represents the type of rural medieval settlement that dotted the North Cork landscape during the 13th and 14th centuries, when Anglo-Norman colonists established agricultural estates throughout the region.