This rectangular enclosure, measuring 36 metres north to south and 29 metres east to west, features rounded corners and would have once provided protection for a medieval homestead. The site is defined by a series of earthworks including an inner bank, now largely reduced to a scarp between 2.9 and 5.6 metres wide; a fosse or defensive ditch measuring 2.1 to 2.8 metres across; and traces of an outer bank approximately 6.4 metres wide.

The monument’s history can be traced through historic mapping, appearing as a grove on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map from 1840. By the time of the 1903-04 edition, the site had been levelled, though its outline remains visible at ground level today. The enclosure sits beneath pasture land, with a post and wire fence running east to west just inside the inner bank on the southern side.

Archaeological interest in the site was renewed when it appeared clearly on an aerial photograph taken by the Geological Survey of Ireland in April 1974. These moated sites, common throughout medieval Ireland, typically date from the 13th to 14th centuries and were built by Anglo-Norman settlers and wealthy Irish families alike. They served as fortified farmsteads, with the water-filled moat providing both defence and a status symbol in the medieval landscape.