It is not dramatic to look at. What survives is a scarp, the eroded edge of what was once a raised enclosure, tracing an oval shape measuring approximately 47 metres east to west and 43.5 metres north to south. This is a rath, the most common monument type in the Irish landscape, a term for a ringfort defined by an earthen bank and, often, an outer ditch. Thousands survive across the country, each one the remains of a farmstead, typically dating from the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries.

At Skecoor, the outer ditch, known as a fosse, no longer reads clearly as a depression in the ground. Instead, its course can be traced by a band of differential vegetation, the kind of subtle colour and texture change in grass that marks buried or disturbed soil. This trace runs from the west side of the monument around through the north and continues to the east. To the south, even this faint signal fades. A field boundary, probably of more recent agricultural origin, cuts directly through the monument from east to west, and the enclosing scarp south of that line has been worn down to near invisibility. What was once a coherent enclosure is now readable only in fragments, its geometry inferred as much as seen.