Its interior has been levelled, a road clips through its southern sector, and for some time the ground was used as a storage yard for building materials. What remains, if anything does, is likely confined to partial stretches of the eastern and western scarp, the earthen bank or slope that would once have defined the enclosure's boundary.

Enclosures of this type are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape, typically associated with early medieval settlement, though their functions varied considerably. What makes Carrownreddy worth pausing over is the contrast between two moments in its recorded history. By the time the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map was drawn up in 1840, the site appeared not as an earthwork but as a patch of woodland, flanked by the road to the south and Carrownreddy Lough to the north. The later OS edition shows the underlying sub-oval form more clearly, suggesting that as the trees were cleared, the shape of the enclosure became legible again, even as the ground itself was being disturbed. The monument as it now exists sits somewhere between those two states, neither fully readable nor entirely gone.