This rectangular platform, measuring 34 metres from northeast to southwest and 28.5 metres from northwest to southeast, represents a type of defensive settlement that became common in medieval Ireland, particularly in areas where stone was scarce and earth was the primary building material.

The site’s defences tell a story of careful medieval engineering. Three sides of the rectangle are protected by an earthen bank that varies between 2 and 3 metres in width, standing up to 1.7 metres high on its outer face. Beyond this bank runs a substantial fosse, or defensive ditch, reaching nearly 6 metres wide in places, with an additional low counterscarp bank on its far side for extra protection. The fourth side, facing northwest, incorporates what appears to be an adapted section of the original fosse into the modern townland boundary ditch, a common example of how medieval features continue to shape today’s landscape.

A stone-lined entrance gap, 3.5 metres wide, pierces the northeastern bank, marking the original access point to this fortified enclosure. Inside the platform, traces of internal divisions survive as low earthen banks; one runs 11 metres from the northeast before turning at a right angle towards the southeast, suggesting the footprint of buildings or activity areas within the protected space. Such moated sites typically housed timber halls and agricultural buildings, serving as defended farmsteads for Anglo-Norman settlers or Gaelicised families during the later medieval period.