This rectangular enclosure, measuring approximately 40 metres east to west and 35 metres north to south, sits on a southeast-facing slope and was once surrounded by two defensive banks or water-filled moats. Though the site has long since blended into the surrounding farmland and remains invisible at ground level when crops are growing, its ghostly outline still emerges in aerial photography, particularly in images captured in 2006 where the eastern moat clearly shows through the vegetation patterns.

The site first appeared on official records in the 1839 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, marking it as a notable feature in the local landscape at that time. Historical geographer T.B. Barry identified it as a potential moated site in 1977, suggesting it may date to the medieval period when such fortified homesteads were common throughout Ireland. These moated sites typically belonged to Anglo-Norman settlers or prosperous Irish families who dug defensive ditches around their homes and farmsteads, filling them with water for protection against raids and cattle thieves.

Today, only aerial archaeology reveals what the naked eye cannot see; the eastern fosse, or defensive ditch, appears as a dark mark in digital photographs, whilst earlier aerial surveys from 1995 captured a faint outline of the entire structure. The site forms part of Wexford’s rich archaeological inventory, compiled by Michael Moore and updated in 2012, representing one of many such hidden medieval landscapes that dot the Irish countryside, their stories largely forgotten but their footprints still etched into the earth.