The land has been levelled, the encircling ditch is gone, and a modern field boundary cuts clean across what remains. What you are left with is an oval patch of slightly raised ground, roughly 25 metres north to south and 21 east to west, and a cluster of boulders at the north-west that may once have formed a kerb, a low edging stone used to define or retain an earthen bank. Without those details, the place would be indistinguishable from ordinary pasture.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were the most common form of enclosed rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular bank and ditch surrounding a farmstead. The one at Loughannacrannoge was still visible enough to be mapped in 1837, when the Ordnance Survey recorded it as a circular enclosure on their first large-scale survey of Ireland. At that point the site retained at least its outline. Since then, agricultural activity has done what centuries of slow decay did not, and the fosse, the defensive or boundary ditch that would originally have encircled the bank, has vanished entirely. No trace of the original entrance survives either, which means even the orientation of the settlement, the direction its inhabitants faced outward onto the world, is no longer legible.