This slightly raised platform, measuring roughly 40 metres from northeast to southwest and 22 metres across, sits within a broad earthen bank that’s seen better days. The bank, which reaches heights of up to 2.5 metres on its outer face, encircles the site alongside a narrow, water-filled moat that’s nearly two metres deep in places. A three-metre-wide gap on the southeastern side likely served as the original causeway entrance, though time and cattle have created additional breaks in the northwestern and northeastern sections of the bank.

The interior of this medieval site remains remarkably well-preserved, with several low, undulating earthworks hinting at the foundations of buildings or internal boundary walls that once divided the space. The surrounding moat, which averages about 4.5 metres wide at its top, still holds water; particularly along the northwestern side where it’s been repurposed as a field drain. A modern road now cuts through the outer defensive ditch at the eastern corner, following the northeastern edge of the moat.

This type of moated site typically dates from the 13th to 14th centuries, when Anglo-Norman settlers and wealthy Irish families built fortified homesteads across the countryside. The good visibility in all directions from this marshy location would have been strategic, allowing the inhabitants to spot approaching visitors or threats well in advance. Though the structures that once stood here have long since vanished, the earthworks provide a tangible connection to medieval Ireland, when such moated sites served as administrative centres, manor houses, or fortified farmsteads for the local gentry.