What survives is modest: a low scarp of earth, barely 0.2 metres high at its southern edge and rising to around 1.5 metres at the north, enclosing a roughly circular area of approximately 55 metres in diameter. It is the kind of feature that registers, if at all, as a slight unevenness in the ground, a subtle rise and fall that only makes sense once you know what you are looking at.

By 1837, when the Ordnance Survey produced its first large-scale mapping of Ireland at six inches to the mile, the site was already being labelled simply as "Fort", suggesting it was recognised locally as an enclosure of some antiquity even then. In Irish archaeological terms, a fort of this type generally refers to a ringfort, a class of enclosed settlement that was widespread across the country during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. Ringforts served as farmsteads, defined by an earthen bank and external ditch, and they survive in their thousands across Ireland in varying states of preservation. This one, on the slope of Edenmore Hill, sits at the less well-preserved end of that spectrum. The scarp that once would have formed a more substantial bank has slumped and eroded over centuries, leaving only the faintest outline of what was once a defined boundary.