The site at Creagh is exactly the kind of place that rewards a second look: a roughly circular raised area about 28 metres across, its boundaries worn down to little more than a whisper of their original form.

What survives is a low bank of earth and stone running along the western to north-eastern arc of the enclosure, no more than about ten centimetres high and roughly two and a half metres wide. On the remaining sides, the edge is defined by a scarp, a short, steep face in the ground, rising to around half a metre. At the southern base of this scarp there are faint traces of a fosse, the term for a defensive ditch, still just about measurable at two and a half metres wide and ten centimetres deep. A gap of roughly one and a half metres in the western bank may be where the original entrance once stood. Inside, patches of outcropping rock break through the surface. Sites of this general character are typically interpreted as ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, though the precise date and function of this particular example are not recorded. What is clear is that whoever chose this north-east-facing slope did so deliberately, and that the ground has quietly held the shape of their enclosure ever since.