The site measures approximately 21 metres from east to west and 17 metres from north to south, enclosed by an earthen bank that still stands about 0.7 metres high. Around this bank runs an external fosse, or defensive ditch, of similar depth, which would have originally been filled with water to create the moat that gave these sites their name.

The earthworks show varying states of preservation around the perimeter. On the northern and eastern sides, you can still make out traces of a counterscarp bank; an outer defensive ridge that would have made the moat even more formidable to potential attackers. The southern and western portions of the fosse are now bounded by modern field fencing, suggesting these areas have seen more agricultural disturbance over the centuries. This type of fortified farmstead was particularly common in Cork during the 13th and 14th centuries, when Anglo-Norman settlers established defended homesteads throughout the countryside.

Today, the site sits quietly in its pastoral setting, its grassy banks and silted ditches offering only subtle hints of its defensive past. Like many of Cork’s estimated 200 moated sites, it represents a fascinating period when the Irish countryside was dotted with these modest fortifications; practical structures that balanced the need for security with the demands of agricultural life in medieval Ireland.