First recorded on the 1839 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, this moated site at Oldcourt represents a type of medieval settlement once common across the Irish landscape. Despite its historical significance, the site has faded from local memory; residents don’t consider it an antiquity, and the pastoral fields that now cover it reveal little to the casual observer.

The enclosure lies approximately 60 metres west of a small stream that flows eastward from its headwaters, a strategic placement that would have provided both water access and natural drainage for the medieval inhabitants. Moated sites like this one typically date from the 13th to 15th centuries and were often associated with Anglo-Norman colonisation of Ireland. These rectangular, embanked enclosures served as defended homesteads for wealthy farmers or minor gentry, with the surrounding moat or ditch providing both protection and a statement of status in the medieval social hierarchy.

Today, the site remains visible only through careful archaeological survey and historical mapping, its earthworks having been gradually softened by centuries of agricultural use. The Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford, compiled by Michael Moore and published in 1996, formally documented this feature, ensuring its preservation in the historical record even as its physical presence continues to fade beneath the verdant pastures of the Wexford countryside.