This rectangular enclosure, measuring approximately 60 metres east to west and 40 metres north to south, appears only on the 1839 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, marked as an embanked or moated site. Today, visitors walking across this north-facing slope would find little evidence of what once stood here; the site has effectively vanished from ground level view.

Local tradition holds that the site once featured a low earthen bank, though curiously, no fosse or defensive ditch was apparent even when the earthworks were still visible. This absence is somewhat unusual for moated sites, which typically featured both banks and water-filled ditches as defensive measures during the medieval period. These rectangular enclosures were commonly built by Anglo-Norman settlers and wealthy Irish families between the 13th and 14th centuries, serving as fortified farmsteads or manor houses.

The site’s documentation comes from Barry’s 1977 survey and was later incorporated into the Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford, published in 1996. Whilst the physical remains have been lost to time and agriculture, its presence on early Ordnance Survey mapping ensures this piece of Wexford’s medieval landscape isn’t entirely forgotten. The site represents one of many such earthworks that once dotted the Irish countryside, silent witnesses to centuries of settlement, conflict, and agricultural change.