The site appears on Ordnance Survey maps from 1839 and 1940 marked simply as ‘Site of Castle’, yet no historical documents have ever surfaced to tell us who built it, who lived there, or why it was abandoned. What remains is a raised rectangular platform measuring 43 metres east to west and 35 metres north to south, with distinctive raised corners that give it an almost fortified appearance.

The earthwork is defined by overgrown moats on all four sides, each about six metres wide and dropping between one and one and a half metres below the interior level. On the eastern and southern edges, an outer bank rises about half a metre high and spans five to six metres in width, adding an extra layer of defence or drainage to the structure. These features strongly suggest this was once a moated site, a type of medieval settlement particularly popular in Ireland during the 13th and 14th centuries, typically built by Anglo-Norman colonists as defended farmsteads rather than true castles.

While local tradition and old maps insist on calling it a castle site, the lack of any stone foundations or documentary evidence suggests it may have been something rather more modest; perhaps a timber hall or fortified manor house surrounded by its protective moat. The Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford, compiled by Barry in 1977 and updated by Michael Moore in 2012, notes the complete absence of historical documentation for any castle here, leaving this intriguing earthwork as one of Wexford’s many archaeological puzzles, its true purpose and history lost to time.