This square enclosure, measuring 31.5 metres on each side, sits on a level break along the lower slope of a ridge, with a fast-flowing river running about 20 metres to the west. What makes this location particularly intriguing is that it’s one of three moated sites in close proximity; another lies immediately to the southeast, whilst a third can be found further north-northeast.

The site’s defining features include a much-reduced earthen bank that originally enclosed the square area, now surviving as little more than a scarp along the eastern, southern and western sides. This bank, roughly 1.5 metres wide, rises only 12 centimetres on the interior but drops 60 centimetres on the exterior, where it meets a waterlogged fosse or ditch that’s approximately 3.2 metres wide. Today, dense gorse bushes have colonised much of the southern and western banks, giving the site a wild, overgrown appearance that speaks to centuries of abandonment.

The interior of the enclosure presents an undulating, waterlogged landscape that would have been considerably drier when the site was actively occupied during medieval times. These moated sites, typically dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, served as defended homesteads for Anglo-Norman settlers and wealthy Irish families. The concentration of three such sites in this small area of Tipperary suggests this was once a strategically important or particularly prosperous locality, perhaps taking advantage of the nearby river for transport and the elevated position for defence.