This unusual site, known as The Court, is seen to best effect on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 large scale mapping published in 1870.  This shows a rectilinear enclosure occupying the north and west half of OS Field no. 1107, bounded by a wide ditch to the south, east and north.  To the west and north-west, the site is defined by the field boundary and a small stream or drainage channel which follows the line of the hedge.  The enclosed area measured about 100 by 110m, with a small, rectilinear extension about 20 by 30 m in the south-west corner.  Near the south side of the enclosure, the OS also depicts a square-topped mound about 20 m across. 


By the middle of the 20th century it was noted that the mound was reduced and stood around 1 m high, whilst the ditches, although in some places 10 to 15 m wide, were by then quite shallow.  All features are now substantially ploughed down and best seen on aerial photographs or LiDAR.


The OS names the site 'The Court' using the standard pre-Norman antiquities script, though no dating evidence or artefacts are known.  A visit to the site in the mid 20th century observed stones in the area east of the mound but these were considered to be part of a modern structure.


It has been speculated that the site was some kind of fortification, but its location would tend to contradict the idea that it served a defensive purpose.  The site lies in a hollow and is overlooked on all sides except to the NNW, in which direction the hollow develops into a more deeply-cut drainage feature which eventually accommodates a stream issuing onto Cain's Strand 900 m away.  The topography of the hollow suggests that at one time several palaeo-channels once flowed into it from the east; one of these later accommodated the tail leat from the mill at East Lherghydhoo farm (see Record no 1775.00) which appears to have been disrupted by the construction of the Manx Northern Railway line which opened in 1879. 


A more recent suggestion is that the site is an example of a 'courtyard farm', though this is not a type of site found in the Isle of Man.  The unusual name has also led to the suggestion that the site was of high status, perhaps even the location of a bishop's palace, though this too lacks confirmatory evidence.