Though invisible at ground level today, this rectangular earthwork was significant enough to be marked on the 1839 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where it was recorded as ‘Site of fort’. The feature measures approximately 85 metres from east to west and between 50 and 65 metres from north to south, dimensions that suggest a substantial defensive structure once stood here.

The site’s current state makes it difficult to appreciate what would have been an important local stronghold. Completely obscured by vegetation, only the faintest traces of the rectangular outline can be detected, and even these are barely perceptible without prior knowledge of the fort’s location. This type of earthwork fort, common throughout Ireland, typically dates from the early medieval period, though without excavation it’s impossible to determine the exact age or history of this particular example.

The fort was documented by Barry in 1977 as part of wider archaeological surveys in Wexford, and later included in the Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford published in 1996. Like many such sites across Ireland, this forgotten fortification serves as a reminder of the layers of history that lie beneath the modern landscape; centuries of agriculture, weather, and neglect have reduced what was once a prominent defensive position to little more than a subtle impression in the earth, recorded on old maps and preserved in archaeological records.