It is not marked on most maps as anything of significance, and the people who farm and walk around it know it simply as a tree-ring, not a ringfort. That local distinction matters, because it points to a quietly persistent habit in the Irish countryside of attaching a name to a feature without necessarily knowing, or needing to know, what the feature originally was.

The site at Loughananna is recorded in the National Monuments Service archive, compiled by archaeologist Caimin O'Brien and uploaded in October 2021. It consists of a slightly raised, roughly circular earthwork defined by a low scarp, its interior now so densely covered in scrub that any close inspection of the ground beneath is effectively impossible. A second, levelled tree-ring lies about 80 metres to the south-east, itself largely gone from view. Tree-rings in Ireland are a somewhat loose category, typically referring to circular earthworks, sometimes the remains of much older enclosures such as ringforts (roughly circular enclosed farmsteads used from the early medieval period into the post-medieval era), that came to be planted with trees, often in the eighteenth or nineteenth century as estate landscaping features. The term can therefore describe both the original earthwork and the later designed addition, and the two are not always easy to separate. At Loughananna, the earthwork's original function remains unresolved.

The site sits in open pasture, so access depends on landowner permission, as it does with the great majority of earthworks in private fields across Ireland. Satellite imagery taken in October 2006 and again in November 2018 shows the outline of the tree-lined earthwork clearly enough, but by September 2019 the levelled ring to the south-east had lost even that ghost of visibility. The surviving ring is best appreciated at a distance, where the slight elevation and the scrub growth together give it a distinct circular outline against the surrounding grassland. Those with access to Google Earth can compare the two dates of imagery and watch the landscape quietly erase itself.