Or there may not. That ambiguity is, in its own quiet way, the whole story.

A moated site is exactly what it sounds like: a platform of raised ground enclosed by a water-filled or wet ditch, typically associated with Anglo-Norman settlement in Ireland during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. They were domestic rather than military in character, more farmstead than fortress. Within this particular example, a report filed in 1976 noted the possibility of a house site in the eastern interior. The operative word, then and now, is possible. No date was ever confidently assigned to the structure, and by the time anyone looked closely enough to record it formally, the evidence was already fading. Today, nothing of it survives above ground level.