This subrectangular earthwork measures approximately 21.7 metres from north-northwest to south-southeast and 20.1 metres from east-northeast to west-southwest. The site is defined by an earth and stone bank that rises about 45 centimetres on the interior side and 90 centimetres on the exterior, with a width of roughly 1.3 metres. Surrounding this bank is an external fosse, or defensive ditch, measuring 3.3 metres wide and 30 centimetres deep, though it’s barely visible along the south-southeast side.

The defensive features of this moated site include a counterscarp bank, a secondary earthwork measuring 40 centimetres wide, which is only evident along the north-northwest side. These moated sites were typically constructed during the Anglo-Norman period in Ireland, serving as fortified homesteads for colonising families or as administrative centres for managing agricultural estates. The combination of bank and fosse would have provided both drainage and defence, whilst the raised platform inside would have supported timber buildings, now long vanished.

Today, the site shows signs of later agricultural use; a field boundary cuts east to west through the interior, and some stone has been dumped both inside the enclosure and in the fosse at the northern corner. Despite these intrusions, the earthwork remains a well-preserved example of medieval settlement patterns in County Sligo, offering a tangible connection to the complex history of Anglo-Norman colonisation in the west of Ireland. The site was formally recorded in the Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo, compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy, and published by the Dublin Stationery Office in 2005.