What survives today is a slightly raised, roughly oval area, approximately 59 metres across on its longest axis, ringed by a bank of earth and stone that rises no more than half a metre above the surrounding ground. Easy to walk past, easy to dismiss as a field boundary or a quirk of the terrain, it is in fact the remnant of a much more substantial structure.

At its northern arc, patches of drystone masonry are visible on the outer face of the bank, though this stonework appears to be of relatively modern date, likely a later repair or reuse of the original material rather than an original feature. A survey carried out in 1976 found considerably more to work with: an external fosse, which is a defensive ditch running around the outside of an enclosure, and fragmentary traces of a second, outer bank. Both of these elements have since been levelled, probably through agricultural activity in the intervening decades, leaving the site smaller and less legible than it once was. The same 1976 report identified the original entrance as lying at the south-east, a position typical of Irish ringforts, where the entrance was often oriented towards the east or south-east, broadly in the direction of the rising sun and away from prevailing westerly winds. Within the enclosed interior, outcrops of natural rock break through the surface, suggesting the builders worked around, or perhaps incorporated, the existing geology of the slope.

The bank dimensions, somewhere between two and a half and three and a half metres wide, point to an enclosure that was once meaningfully defined, even if its height never rivalled the more dramatic ringforts found elsewhere in the country. What makes Currycreaghan quietly notable is precisely this sense of attrition, a site that was once layered and complex, with multiple lines of enclosure, and is now reduced to a single low ring in a grazing field, its outer defences absorbed back into the land.