The structure is modest in every measurable sense: roughly four metres from north-north-west to south-south-east, eight metres across from east-north-east to west-south-west, with a surrounding scarp barely half a metre high. Yet the rounded corners at the north-west and north-east angles, and the deliberate levelling of the interior platform, point to something that was once carefully made and purposefully used by people whose names and circumstances are entirely unknown.

The structure came to light not as an isolated discovery but during a field inspection of an adjacent moated site. A moated site, in Irish medieval archaeology, refers to a farmstead or small settlement enclosed by a water-filled or wet ditch, typically associated with Anglo-Norman settlement from the twelfth century onwards, though their use extended across several centuries. This particular building sits within that moated enclosure, pressing up against the inner bank on the southern side, which suggests it was at some point a functioning part of whatever domestic or agricultural life the moated site supported. The interior has been raised on the north side to compensate for the natural slope of the ground, creating a level platform, though animal trampling has worn that surface down considerably over time. When it was built, who occupied it, and how long it stood are questions the archaeology cannot currently answer, hence the deliberately cautious designation of indeterminate date.