Originally recorded on the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map as a substantial rectangular enclosure measuring approximately 50 metres northeast to southwest and 44 metres northwest to southeast, the site was surrounded by a defensive bank. According to the landowner’s recollections from 1972, the monument consisted of a rectangular area enclosed by a water-filled ditch, or fosse, with a low earthen bank running along its inner edge; a fairly typical arrangement for these Anglo-Norman defensive sites.

The monument met its unfortunate end sometime between 1953 and 1955, when agricultural improvements saw it completely levelled for tillage. However, its ghost still appears in the landscape under the right conditions. Aerial photographs captured in 1967 and 1973 reveal the cropmark outline of the fosse, with what appears to be an original entrance gap visible on the southwestern side. These darker marks in growing crops indicate where the deeper, moister soil of the filled-in ditch affects plant growth differently from the surrounding ground.

Today, while nothing remains visible at ground level, the site serves as a reminder of how much of Ireland’s medieval landscape has been lost to agricultural intensification in the twentieth century. The careful documentation by aerial photographers and local memory has at least preserved some record of this once-substantial earthwork, which would have been an imposing feature in the medieval countryside of Kildare.