First recorded on the 1839 Ordnance Survey map as a rectangular embanked enclosure, this earthwork originally measured approximately 55 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west, surrounded by a wooded moat extending the site’s footprint to 75 by 65 metres. Today, much of the western edge has been lost to time, leaving a rectangular wooded area of 35 by 22 metres that still bears the distinctive marks of its medieval origins.

The surviving features tell the story of a carefully engineered defensive structure. Earthen banks, three metres wide and rising between half a metre to a metre in height, define the rectangular space with notably raised corners that would have provided enhanced visibility and defence. These banks are bordered by flat-bottomed moats on three sides, ranging from 12 to 14 metres in width and plunging 1.5 to 2.5 metres below the interior ground level, with external depths reaching up to three metres. The southern moat contains an intriguing feature: a five-metre-wide berm along its inner edge, likely evidence of the moat being partially re-cut at some point in its history, perhaps during a period of renewed occupation or defensive improvements.

While the core medieval structure remains largely intact, later additions complicate the site’s archaeology. An outer bank and fosse running along the southern road boundary, measuring three metres wide and 1.5 metres high with a flat-bottomed ditch five metres wide at the top, appear to be post-medieval additions rather than part of the original defensive scheme. Archaeological surveys conducted by Barry in 1977 and subsequent research compiled by Michael Moore have helped piece together this site’s evolution, revealing how these medieval homesteads served as fortified farmsteads for Anglo-Norman settlers or prosperous Irish families during the turbulent centuries of medieval Ireland.