What appears today as little more than a slight rise in the ground with a modest scarp running from north-northwest to north-northeast once stood as an impressive moated enclosure. Historical maps tell the story of its gradual disappearance; the 1841 Ordnance Survey depicts it as a trapezoidal earthwork measuring roughly 60 metres northwest to southeast and 50 metres southwest to northeast, complete with surrounding embankments. By 1923, it had already been reduced to merely a peculiarly shaped field boundary.

The site met its final fate in 1979 when, according to local residents, both the enclosure and its surrounding field boundaries were completely levelled for agricultural purposes. Before its destruction, the northern defensive bank reportedly stood about two metres high and featured an external fosse, or defensive ditch, typical of medieval moated sites. These earthwork enclosures, common throughout Ireland during the Anglo-Norman period, typically served as fortified homesteads for wealthy farming families; secure compounds where they could protect their households, livestock and agricultural stores.

Today, visitors need a keen eye and perhaps a bit of imagination to trace the footprint of this once-substantial structure. The site appears in Barry’s 1981 catalogue of moated sites as number 25, cementing its place in the archaeological record even as its physical presence continues to fade into the Limerick countryside. It serves as a reminder that Ireland’s medieval heritage often lies hidden in plain sight, surviving only as gentle undulations in otherwise unremarkable fields.