This rectangular earthwork measures approximately 65 metres by 54 metres and represents one of many such defensive sites that once dotted the Irish countryside. Aerial photographs taken by Cambridge University clearly show the outline of what appears to be a moated enclosure, though time and farming have taken their toll on its original form.

Today, visitors can still trace significant portions of the site’s defensive banks along the southern, eastern and western sides, though they now stand only half a metre high and stretch about five metres wide. The northern boundary has been lost beneath a modern field boundary, obscuring what would have been the complete rectangular circuit. Outside the surviving banks, a fosse or defensive ditch remains visible, particularly along the southern and eastern sides where it measures roughly one metre in width.

First documented by FitzPatrick in 1985 as a large rectangular earthwork, the site was later included in the Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O’Brien in 2002. The proximity of the tower house, catalogued separately as TN014-049002, suggests this area held strategic importance, possibly serving as a fortified settlement during the medieval period when such moated sites were commonly constructed by Anglo-Norman settlers and Gaelic lords alike.