The site overlooks the Dinin river valley to the south, offering expansive views across the rolling grassland that characterises this part of the Irish countryside. The location was strategically chosen; whilst the immediate terrain to the southwest is marshy and difficult to traverse, the platform itself sits on firmer ground with natural defensive advantages.

The moated site consists of a roughly rectangular earthwork platform measuring approximately 41 metres from northwest to southeast and 25 metres from northeast to southwest. Originally, a diverted stream created a water-filled defensive ditch, or fosse, along the northeastern and south-southeastern sides, though this measured only about 2 metres wide and half a metre deep. The northwestern edge has been obscured over time by a later field boundary, whilst a slight bank still marks the western perimeter. Since the site was first surveyed in 1987, the stream has been redirected and now cuts diagonally across the interior from north to south-southwest, dramatically altering the original medieval layout.

First identified through aerial photography taken between 1973 and 1977 by the Geological Survey of Ireland, the site has revealed additional features through modern analysis. A circular enclosure was spotted on the same aerial photographs, positioned immediately south of the eastern end of the main platform’s southeastern side. These moated sites, common throughout medieval Ireland, typically date from the Anglo-Norman period and served as fortified farmsteads or minor manorial centres, combining defensive features with agricultural functionality in the Irish landscape.