This square earthwork, measuring 16 metres on each side, remains clearly visible as a raised platform surrounded by the characteristic defensive features that once protected a medieval dwelling. The site’s scarps, which form the raised edges of the platform, are best preserved along the eastern side where they reach 60 centimetres in height and span nearly 3.5 metres in width, though erosion has taken its toll on the northeastern corner.

The defensive fosse, or water-filled ditch, that once encircled the site can still be traced along the southern, western and northern sides, measuring just under 5 metres wide though now only 20 centimetres deep after centuries of silting. A curious feature extends from the southeastern corner; a 10-metre channel that appears to have served as a drainage system, directing water toward a nearby stream to the east. Fragments of an outer bank, measuring nearly 5 metres wide, survive along the northwestern perimeter, suggesting this site once boasted multiple layers of defence typical of such medieval strongholds.

Today, the interior of this ancient fortification sits level but poorly drained, its defensive purpose long forgotten as cattle graze where a timber hall or stone tower house likely once stood. These moated sites, dating primarily from the 13th to 15th centuries, were typically home to Anglo-Norman settlers or prosperous Gaelic families who required both defence and status symbols in medieval Ireland’s contested landscapes. Though modest in scale compared to great stone castles, such earthworks represent the more common reality of medieval life in rural Ireland, where most landholders made do with timber structures protected by water-filled ditches and earthen banks.