It reads on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a horseshoe shape, oriented roughly from north-east around to north-west, and it survives today in a fenced-off grass area that shares its immediate surroundings with the kennels. A refuse pile in the south-western corner of the field may well be sitting on part of the monument itself, quietly compressing whatever archaeology remains beneath it.

By 1982, when Cahill recorded the site, it was already considered to be in poor condition, suggesting that whatever original earthwork existed had been diminished over time by agricultural use, dumping, or general neglect. The enclosure type is not specified precisely, but such features in the Irish landscape are often the remnants of a ringfort or a similar early medieval settlement boundary, a roughly circular or subcircular earthen bank that once defined a farmstead or defended enclosure. What makes the Garryandrew site particularly interesting in its local context is its proximity to a moated site lying approximately 180 metres to the south-south-west. Moated sites are a distinct class of monument associated mainly with Anglo-Norman settlement from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, rectangular platforms surrounded by water-filled ditches, and finding one so close to an earlier enclosure suggests that this small area of south Tipperary saw repeated episodes of settlement across different periods.