What remains is a degraded scarp, a gentle slump in the ground that curves from the north-west through north to north-east, and that is more or less all. No wall, no ditch, no visible entrance. The site is roughly thirty metres across and subcircular in plan, which is to say it was never quite a perfect ring, and its outline now survives only as a faint topographical whisper in the turf.

Enclosures of this kind are common enough in the Irish landscape, though commonly overlooked. Many are the remains of a rath or ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead built predominantly during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, when a circular earthen bank and ditch defined the household and its livestock against the wider world. At Kildaree, the form is consistent with that tradition, though so little survives that any confident identification is difficult. The site is recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, which means it was legible enough in the nineteenth century to be worth marking, but the intervening years of agricultural use have reduced it to this thin remnant of a scarp.