The 1908 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows this feature as a small rectangular field tucked into the southern corner of a larger field, though today it’s simply a grass-covered platform measuring roughly 26 metres northwest to southeast and 25 metres northeast to southwest.

What makes this site particularly intriguing is its defensive design; the rectangular area is surrounded by substantial flat-bottomed ditches or moats that range from 8 to 12.5 metres wide at the top. These fosses, as they’re known archaeologically, create a formidable barrier with internal depths of 0.8 to 1.2 metres and external depths reaching up to 1.8 metres. The site’s original purpose becomes even more mysterious when you consider that no clear entrance has been identified, suggesting either careful concealment or that time has obscured what was once an obvious way in.

Modern field boundaries have cut across the ancient earthwork, with a northeast to southwest bank running through the southeastern moat and another northwest to southeast bank crossing the southwestern moat. These later additions show how the landscape has been continuously reshaped for agricultural use, yet the distinctive rectangular platform and its surrounding ditches remain clearly visible, preserving this enigmatic piece of medieval or early modern Irish history in the Meath countryside.