What survives is a curve of earth and stone bank, running from the north-east around through the east and down to the south, where it has been absorbed into a modern field boundary and now functions as little more than a fence line. The rest is gone, or at least unreadable.

Enclosures of this kind are among the most common, and most ambiguous, features of the Irish countryside. They may mark the perimeter of a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead used broadly from the early medieval period onwards, or they could relate to other forms of settlement or enclosure that are harder to date without excavation. At Garryncurry, that question is unlikely to be resolved any time soon. The site was once surrounded by scrub and woodland, which, while it may have obscured the feature visually, at least left the bank undisturbed. When the land was cleared in recent times, the cleared material was not removed but piled directly onto the surviving stretch of bank. The practical consequence is that the bank's original dimensions can no longer be measured, and any sense of the enclosure's scale or character has been further buried rather than revealed. The archaeology has not been destroyed outright, but it has been made inaccessible in a way that may prove permanent without deliberate intervention.