This quadrangular enclosure, measuring approximately 42 metres north to south and 42 to 48 metres east to west, sits on the flat, marshy floor of the valley. Though much of the site has been levelled over the centuries, its defensive features remain traceable: a two-metre-wide internal bank, a five-metre-wide water-filled ditch or fosse, and another two-metre-wide outer bank that would have formed the site’s perimeter defences.

The entrance to this fortified homestead faces east towards the stream, with a four-metre-wide gap marking where residents and visitors would have crossed into the enclosure. This strategic positioning next to water was typical of moated sites, which were rural defended settlements built primarily by Anglo-Norman colonists and wealthy Irish families during the 13th and 14th centuries. The proximity to the stream would have provided a ready water source to keep the defensive ditch filled whilst offering practical advantages for daily life.

Today, the site’s features are best observed through aerial photography, particularly in images captured by the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography. These photographs reveal the ghostly outlines of the banks and ditches as cropmarks; variations in plant growth that trace the buried archaeological features beneath the soil. The site was formally recorded in the Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow in 1997, contributing to our understanding of medieval settlement patterns in this part of Ireland.