This roughly square earthwork enclosure measures between 30 and 35 metres on each side, its defensive boundaries still traceable despite centuries of neglect. The site appears on the earliest Ordnance Survey maps from 1839, where it’s depicted with hachure marks indicating the raised earthworks that once formed its perimeter.

A well on the eastern side of the enclosure provides a clue to the site’s original design. According to the 1899-1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map, this well fed a stream that flowed south before turning east, and it likely also supplied water to fill a defensive moat that once surrounded the entire enclosure. Such moated sites were typically constructed during the Anglo-Norman period in Ireland, serving as fortified homesteads for settlers who needed protection in what was often contested territory.

The monument has undergone significant changes over the past two centuries. While clearly visible on the 1839 Ordnance Survey map, by the time of the 1899-1900 revision only the southern and western sides were marked as field boundaries; the northern and eastern sides had already begun to disappear from the landscape. Today, nature has largely reclaimed the site, with dense vegetation obscuring much of what remains of this medieval defensive structure, though its basic form can still be discerned by those who know where to look.