What the earlier map recorded as a roughly circular earthwork, with field boundaries radiating from its southern and north-western edges, had by the later survey been reduced to something more triangular and truncated, cut through by a field boundary running north-west to south-east. The transformation is a small, undramatic example of how centuries of agricultural pragmatism can erode the geometry of an early medieval enclosure without anyone quite deciding to demolish it.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when constructed from earth rather than stone, were the standard form of enclosed farmstead across Ireland from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They typically consisted of a raised central area ringed by one or more banks and ditches, the whole thing serving as a working homestead rather than a military fortification. The Scurlockstown example, sitting in pasture, retains a double-bank arrangement: an inner earthen bank enclosing a roughly circular area of about 28 metres in diameter, separated from an outer bank by a fosse, which is a ditch cut to define and deepen the defensive profile. When the site was examined in 1983, the inner bank was still standing between half a metre and a metre in internal height, well preserved around the northern arc from north-west through to south-east, but levelled and poorly defined on the south-western side. The fosse between the two banks was particularly pronounced to the north, dropping three to four metres from the inner bank, with a width of around two metres. The outer bank, roughly a metre in internal height, survives best around the northern arc and becomes barely traceable towards the east, with several gaps breaking its circuit.

Aerial photography shows the monument today as a partially tree-lined earthwork, the vegetation picking out the line of the surviving banks where the ground itself no longer speaks clearly. That combination of partial preservation and partial loss is itself characteristic of the site: enough survives to read the original intention, while the modifications imposed by field boundaries and centuries of grazing have left it in a state of useful ambiguity, neither ruin nor intact monument.