Forty metres across and circular in plan, it survives not as a dramatic earthwork but as a subtle platform, the kind of feature that rewards slow walking and a certain patience with grass. What gives it away, for those who know to look, is a curve in an overgrown field fence running east to west; that gentle arc is thought to follow the original enclosing bank, absorbed centuries ago into the working geometry of the farmland around it.

The enclosure was recorded as a hachured circular platform on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, meaning the cartographers noted its raised, bowl-like form using short radiating lines to indicate slope and relief. Enclosures of this kind are a common feature of the Irish countryside, ranging from prehistoric ringforts used as defended farmsteads to later ecclesiastical or ritual sites, though the precise date and function of the Moneygaff example is not established. What is clear is that it occupies a considered position in the landscape, set on a slope with a long view towards the Derrynasaggart mountains to the south-west, a range straddling the Cork and Kerry border whose Irish name, Droim na Sagairt, refers to the ridge of the priests.