The structure is modest almost to the point of invisibility: a slight earthen bank, roughly two metres wide, tracing a rough circle some thirteen and a half metres north to south and just over fifteen metres east to west. It would be easy to walk across it without registering it as anything other than a slight unevenness in the ground.

What complicates this apparent simplicity is the western side of the bank, where a number of large flat slabs survive. Their positioning suggests that the bank was once faced with stone on the outside, giving the enclosure a more deliberate, finished appearance than its current condition implies. Circular enclosures of this kind are found across Ireland and range considerably in date and function, from early medieval farmsteads to prehistoric ritual sites, and the Doory example gives little away about which category it belongs to. Its presence was recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map, which means it was legible enough as a feature in the nineteenth century to be worth noting, even if its origins were already ancient and uncertain. The interior holds only a scatter of small loose stones now, the accumulated remains of whatever once stood or happened within the ring.