The earthen bank enclosing this ringfort, or rath, survives only faintly in places, rising just twenty centimetres above the surrounding land on its exterior edge. What was once a self-contained enclosure has been quietly absorbed into the working agricultural landscape, its boundaries pressed into service as ordinary field divisions, its stones redistributed, its profile worn down to little more than a slight thickening of the ground.

Ringforts are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, with estimates suggesting that tens of thousands once existed across the country. They are generally understood as enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, in which a family and their livestock would have lived within a circular area defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. The Lissamota example measures roughly 43.5 metres north to south and 44.5 metres east to west, placing it within the typical size range for such sites. The record, compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011, notes that the bank has been incorporated into the existing field boundary system running from the west-northwest to the southeast, where it stands considerably taller, up to 1.65 metres on the exterior face, than the original monument alone would account for. Along the northern arc, from west-northwest to north-northeast, loose stones have been dumped along the bank top, further obscuring its original form. The interior slopes gently downward toward the east and lies under continuous pasture.

The site sits on a gentle south-facing slope, which would have made it a practical and reasonably sheltered location for early medieval occupation. Because so much of the bank has been reduced to a scarped edge or absorbed into later field boundaries, the monument is easier to appreciate on paper than underfoot. Visitors with an interest in landscape archaeology should look for the slight change in ground level that marks the surviving bank, particularly along the northern and western sides where it remains most legible. The interior depression sloping to the east is another clue worth watching for. As with many such sites in Irish farmland, the rath is on working agricultural ground, so any visit should be arranged with appropriate consideration for landowners and livestock.