This rectangular earthwork measures approximately 28 metres from north-northeast to south-southwest and 24.5 metres from west-northwest to east-southeast, with distinctly rounded corners. The entire structure sits on a slight slope that descends towards the east, creating a shallow, dish-like depression across its grass-covered interior.

The site’s defining features are its well-preserved earthen banks and outer ditches, known as fosses. On the northeastern side, the bank rises from a base width of nearly 9 metres to a top width of 3 metres, standing about 1.2 metres high when viewed from outside, though only 20 centimetres from the interior. The accompanying fosse measures 3 metres wide at its base and reaches a depth of roughly 45 centimetres. A deliberate entrance gap, 3 metres wide, breaks through the eastern defences, providing the original access point to this enclosed space.

These moated sites, which date primarily from the 13th and 14th centuries, served as fortified homesteads for Anglo-Norman settlers and prosperous farmers. The earthworks would have originally surrounded a timber hall or tower, creating both a defensive barrier and a status symbol in the medieval landscape. Today, whilst the buildings have long since vanished, the earthworks remain as subtle but enduring markers of medieval settlement patterns across the Irish countryside.