This rectangular earthwork, measuring approximately 30 metres northeast to southwest and 26.5 metres northwest to southeast, stands out clearly on modern aerial photography. Just 20 metres to the northwest lies what may be a crannog, one of those distinctive artificial islands that medieval Irish communities built for defence and status.

First recorded on the 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the site was depicted as a tree-planted rectangular area rather than being marked as an antiquity. This lack of official archaeological designation continued through subsequent Ordnance Survey editions, though the earthwork’s form and location strongly suggest medieval origins. Moated sites like this one typically date from the Anglo-Norman period, when colonists built defended farmsteads surrounded by water-filled ditches; a practical adaptation to Ireland’s damp climate and political uncertainties.

The proximity to the possible crannog adds an intriguing layer to the site’s history, suggesting this corner of Westmeath may have seen centuries of defensive structures, from native Irish crannogs to Anglo-Norman moated sites. Today, while the bog has been drained and the landscape transformed into pasture, the earthwork remains visible, a rectangular footprint marking where a medieval homestead once stood at the edge of the wetlands.