The circular earthen bank that once enclosed this small settlement has been levelled, and what remains is little more than a faint undulation curving west to north-east across a field of pasture. A fence line cuts straight through the site on a north-east to south-west axis, indifferent to whatever was there before. And yet, for all its near-erasure, the place still sits on a knoll with a steep drop to the south, looking out over a wide, flat stretch of bog and reclaimed pasture, exactly the kind of commanding position that whoever chose this spot would have valued.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, are circular enclosures defined by an earthen bank and ditch, constructed throughout Ireland broadly during the early medieval period and used as defended farmsteads. The example at Attinaskollia was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838 as a circular embanked enclosure approximately twenty metres in diameter. By the 1929 edition, only an arc of hachuring curving north-west to north-east was shown, suggesting the site was already degraded by that point. Both map editions also indicate the presence of a souterrain, a type of underground stone-lined passage associated with ringforts and thought to have served for storage or as a place of refuge. The souterrain is recorded separately and its outline appears to have been legible on the ground at both survey dates, even as the enclosing bank above disappeared. To the north-east and east, the ground falls away gradually over fifteen to twenty metres toward the banks of a stream, which would have provided a reliable water source for the original occupants.