The site consists of a raised, roughly trapezoidal platform measuring about 40 metres from north to south and tapering from 39 metres wide at its northern end to 25 metres at the south. This platform is defended by an impressive earthen rampart, beyond which lies a broad, flat-bottomed fosse (defensive ditch) that would once have been filled with water; indeed, a shallow water-filled depression still visible 25 metres to the northwest hints at the wet conditions that would have made such fortifications effective.

The earthworks remain remarkably well-preserved despite centuries of weathering and livestock erosion. The inner bank, built from compacted gravelly earth, stands up to 1.8 metres high on its outer face and varies between 5 and 5.7 metres in width. Stone fragments protruding from various sections of the inner slope suggest the rampart may once have featured stone facing, whilst the fosse maintains its broad, flat base at roughly 4 metres wide. Traces of an outer bank survive best on the western and northern sides, though field walls now truncate parts of the southern defences and run along the western boundary.

What appears to be the original entrance survives midway along the eastern side, where the bank terminals curve slightly outward and remnants of a causeway cross the partially infilled ditch. Today, the interior supports a covering of grass and thistles, whilst hawthorn trees have colonised sections of the banks and nettles fill parts of the old fosse. Such moated sites, typically dating from the 13th to 14th centuries, served as fortified homesteads for Anglo-Norman settlers or Gaelicised lords, combining defensive capabilities with displays of status in the medieval Irish landscape.