This rectangular earthwork, measuring roughly 38 metres north to south and 32 metres east to west, represents a medieval defensive structure that would have once protected a farmstead or small manor. Just 10 metres to the south-southwest lies what archaeologists believe might be a fulacht fia, one of those mysterious Bronze Age cooking sites that dot the Irish landscape, suggesting this spot has been significant to local communities for thousands of years.

The site’s defensive features are still visible despite centuries of agricultural use and natural decay. A bank, originally about 2.6 metres wide, encircles the interior space, though it’s now mostly reduced to a subtle scarp in the landscape. This earthen rampart is most impressive at the northeast and southwest corners, whilst the northwest corner has been completely worn away and overtaken by scrub vegetation. Outside the bank runs a fosse, or defensive ditch, measuring just over 5 metres wide and less than a metre deep where it survives. The northern and western sections of this ditch remain well-preserved with their characteristic wide, shallow profile, though the southern portion is overgrown and the eastern section has all but vanished.

Time and farming have taken their toll on the monument; the eastern edge has been incorporated into modern field boundaries, whilst cattle have badly trampled the southeast corner. The western side shows significant erosion, and any evidence of a leat, the channel that would have brought water to fill the fosse, has long since disappeared. A stream bed near the northwest corner, now dry, hints at the water management system that would have made this defensive structure effective. Despite its worn condition, the site offers a tangible connection to medieval Ireland, when such moated sites provided security for isolated rural settlements across the country.