This rectangular earthwork first appears on historical maps from 1836, where it’s shown as a small field standing apart from the surrounding agricultural landscape. The site remains visible today through aerial photography, offering a bird’s eye view of what was once likely a defended homestead dating to the medieval period.

The earthwork forms a neat rectangle measuring roughly 34 metres from east to west and 31 metres from north to south. Its boundaries are marked by gentle earthen banks that rise about 20 centimetres on the inside but appear more substantial from the outside, where they reach 70 centimetres in height. Surrounding these banks runs a shallow outer fosse or moat, about 3.7 metres wide and 30 centimetres deep, which would have provided additional protection for whoever lived within. A clever bit of water management can still be traced; a leat, or artificial watercourse, feeds into the fosse at the southwestern corner and drains away at the northwest, suggesting the medieval inhabitants engineered a controlled water supply for their defensive ditch.

Today, the entire area lies beneath a covering of grass, its subtle earthworks barely disturbing the pastoral landscape. Yet these modest remains represent a once common feature of the Irish countryside; moated sites like this one typically housed prosperous farming families during the 13th and 14th centuries, offering them security in uncertain times whilst allowing them to oversee their agricultural holdings. The site’s survival through centuries of farming activity makes it a valuable piece of Meath’s medieval heritage.