The site consists of a raised trapezoidal platform, roughly 24 metres across at its widest point, which would once have held a timber-framed manor house or farm building. The platform is defended by an impressive system of banks and ditches; on the west and north sides, an earthen bank rises over half a metre above the interior and drops 1.6 metres on its outer face, whilst the east and south sides are defined by a sharp scarp that falls away 1.3 metres to the surrounding land.

The defensive features of this site are particularly well-preserved. A fosse, or water-filled ditch, runs along the northern perimeter, measuring 3.4 metres wide with its original flat bottom still discernible. On the western side, this ditch survives only as a shallow depression about 3 metres wide. An additional outer bank on the north side, standing 1.4 metres high on its inner face, would have provided an extra layer of defence. To the south, the scarp drops to an irregular terrace before meeting a strip of flat, marshy ground that separates the monument from the modern road.

Today, the interior of the platform remains level and grassy, whilst hawthorn and ash trees have colonised the perimeter alongside thick brambles, creating a natural boundary that echoes the site’s original defensive purpose. A road now runs close to the eastern scarp, just 1.5 metres from the monument’s edge. These moated sites, typically dating from the 13th to 14th centuries, were once common features of the Irish landscape, built by Anglo-Norman settlers and wealthy Gaelic families as fortified farmsteads that combined residential, agricultural and defensive functions in one compact, easily defended space.