When surveyed in the 1940s, this defensive structure consisted of a square enclosure measuring approximately 30 metres on each side, surrounded by a water-filled ditch or moat about 2 metres wide on three sides; the northern edge, likely protected by the natural slope, lacked this defensive feature. The site also boasted an additional outer ditch along its southern perimeter, suggesting this was a place of some importance that warranted extra protection during troubled medieval times.

The moated site would have been typical of Anglo-Norman settlements in Ireland, built between the 13th and 14th centuries when colonists needed fortified homesteads to establish their presence in the countryside. These weren’t grand castles but rather practical defensive farmsteads, where the moat served both as protection against raids and as a status symbol for the landowner. The water-filled ditches would have been crossed by a wooden bridge, likely removable in times of danger, leading to timber buildings or perhaps a stone hall within the enclosed area.

Unfortunately, sometime after the 1940s survey, the entire structure was levelled, and today nothing remains visible in the pasture where it once stood. The loss of this site represents a common fate for many of Ireland’s earthwork monuments, which have fallen victim to agricultural improvement and land reclamation over the past century. The only traces of this once-fortified homestead now exist in archaeological records and the memories preserved in local place names, reminding us of the medieval landscape that once shaped this corner of County Wexford.