What sets it apart is not its size, a roughly 27-metre-wide enclosure, but the detail at its entrance: three large upright stones, known as orthostats, flank either side of a south-eastern gateway, and beside them the ground holds traces of burnt stone. The burning is unexplained, though such deposits at ringfort entrances are not unusual in the Irish archaeological record, where ritual activity at thresholds is a recurring pattern.

The site is a rath, the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland. A rath typically consists of a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks, originally topped with a timber palisade, and would have housed a farming family of some status. Here, the bank, still standing around 0.7 metres high, is stone-faced in places using large boulders, giving it a more robust character than a purely earthen equivalent. A field fence now runs along the top of the northern section, the kind of quiet agricultural overlay that is common at such sites, where the land has never stopped being used. What is less common is the local tradition recorded by Myler in 1998: a belief that a tunnel once connected this ringfort to another one lying to the east. Underground passages associated with ringforts do exist in Ireland; they are known as souterrains, stone-lined or rock-cut tunnels that served as storage spaces or places of refuge. Whether the Dromclogh tradition refers to a genuine souterrain, a remembered feature long since collapsed, or something more folkloric is not recorded.