This rectangular earthwork, measuring roughly 53 metres from northeast to southwest and 38 metres from southeast to northwest, first appeared on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map as a hachured enclosure. By the time the 1904 and 1938 maps were drawn, it had been incorporated into the local field system, though its distinctive shape remained clearly visible.

Today, visitors to the site will find an area defined by substantial earthen banks standing about 2 metres high on the northeastern and southeastern sides. These impressive defensive features have long since been integrated into the modern field fence system and are now heavily overgrown with vegetation. The southwestern and northwestern boundaries are marked by much more subtle features; low grass-covered rises barely 30 centimetres in height that hint at the site’s original rectangular footprint.

Interestingly, whilst many moated sites typically feature a defensive ditch or fosse surrounding the entire enclosure, here only the southeastern side shows any evidence of such a feature, where the ground slopes gently down from the base of the bank. This type of medieval earthwork, common throughout Ireland, likely served as a fortified farmstead during the Anglo-Norman period, offering both protection and a statement of status in the rural landscape of medieval Cork.