No earthwork rises from the grass, no obvious bank or ditch interrupts the field. The only way to see this site clearly is from the air, where aerial photographs reveal the cropmark of its western half, the differential growth of crops above buried features tracing the ghost of a substantial circular enclosure that otherwise leaves no impression on the ground at all.

What the aerial record shows is a bivallate ringfort, meaning one defined by two concentric ditches rather than the single fosse more commonly encountered across Ireland. The internal diameter runs to approximately 55 metres, with an external diameter of around 85 metres, making it a notably large example of the type. Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when formed from earthworks rather than stone, were the dominant form of rural enclosure in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as enclosed farmsteads for a family of some local standing. At Curraghmore, the inner fosse is the more substantial of the two ditches, and the outer one does not respect the modern townland boundary, extending southward into the adjacent townland of Tintern. That kind of boundary-crossing detail is a small but telling reminder that the landscape these structures once organised bore no relation to the administrative divisions that came later.