The site sits on a rise in undulating pasture, with Lough Conn visible to the east, and while the views are considerable, the earthwork itself tells a quietly complicated story about how the landscape has been used and misused across the centuries.

A rath is an early medieval circular enclosure, typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, and thought to have served as a farmstead or settlement for a single family or household. This one, recorded as 'Rathnacourtia' on Ordnance Survey maps from both 1838 and 1922, now presents as an oval rather than a circle, measuring roughly 19 metres east to west and 25 metres north to south. The northern half retains a proper earthen bank, about 3.5 metres wide, with stones visible on its inner face that may once have formed a kerb or structural facing. The southern half, however, is defined only by a worn, inward-facing scarp, and the interior itself sits noticeably lower on that side than on the north-west. The most likely explanation is that soil was quarried from the southern interior at some point after the rath was built, effectively reshaping the monument and leaving the scarp as a byproduct of disturbance rather than as an original feature. The original enclosure was probably more circular than it now appears. A separate enclosure lies roughly 175 metres to the south, suggesting that this part of Bengeery held some significance across more than one period of use.