The ringfort here is modest by any measure, a roughly circular enclosure some 22 metres north to south and 23 metres east to west, but its survival is the curious thing. The interior dips down towards the centre, the bank along its south-western to north-western arc still holds a visible height of half a metre on the inside and slightly more on the outside, and a scarped edge defines the north-western to south-western stretch. It is not dramatic, but it is legible, which for a structure of this age is something in itself.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths when they are earthen rather than stone-built, were the most common form of enclosed farmstead in early medieval Ireland, broadly from around the fifth to the twelfth century. They typically housed a single family and their livestock, the enclosing bank and ditch serving as much as a social boundary as a defensive one. The Finniterstown example sits atop a low rise in gently undulating terrain, the kind of slight elevation that early farmers favoured for drainage and visibility. A dry-stone wall forming the eastern field boundary skirts the enclosure from east to west, and a short run of collapsed dry-stone walling, roughly eight metres long and now reduced to about 0.4 metres in height, runs at a tangent approximately two metres north of the scarp. Whether this is a later addition or something contemporary with the original enclosure is not recorded in the available survey notes, compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

The small field enclosing the site, approximately 70 metres north to south and 40 metres east to west, has been left largely to itself. Dense vegetation covers much of the interior and the surrounding ground, with nettles particularly thick across the central area. Anyone approaching should expect that the earthwork is more easily read from the perimeter than from within it. The subtle rise of the bank and the dip of the interior floor become clearer once you have walked the outer edge. There is no formal access infrastructure, and the site sits in agricultural land, so visiting should be approached with appropriate consideration for the working landscape around it.