A small stream runs about 50 metres to the northeast, providing what would have been a valuable water source for the site’s original inhabitants. The monument takes the form of a slightly raised, wedge-shaped platform measuring roughly 40 metres north to south and 32 metres east to west, its corners notably elevated above the surrounding landscape.

The site’s most distinctive features are its defensive earthworks, which consist of substantial earthen banks standing 3 to 4 metres wide. These banks rise about half a metre above the interior but present a more imposing face to the outside world at 1.5 metres high. Surrounding these banks runs a flat-bottomed fosse, essentially a dry moat, measuring 3 metres wide and about 30 centimetres deep on the exterior. Historical records from the 1940s indicate there was once an outer bank as well, though this has since been removed; only faint traces of the moat remain visible on the western side.

This important archaeological site has been protected under a preservation order since 1956, recognising its significance to Ireland’s medieval heritage. The monument was documented by Barry in 1977 and later included in the Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford published in 1996. Recent research by Michael Moore in 2012 has helped update our understanding of the site, though much of its history, including who built it and when it was occupied, remains shrouded in the mists of time.