What makes the site quietly curious is not any dramatic ruin but rather what is absent and what lies hidden. There is no visible trace of a fosse, the defensive ditch that typically accompanies an earthen ringfort of this kind, and beneath the ground to the south-west of centre there is a souterrain, an artificially constructed underground passage or chamber, the sort of feature used in early medieval Ireland for storage or concealment.

The enclosure measures roughly 28 metres north to south and 31 metres east to west, making it a moderately sized example of a ringfort type that was once commonplace across Ireland but is now frequently damaged or overlooked entirely. Two gaps punctuate the bank, one to the east and one to the west-north-west; the latter is considered possibly original, meaning it may mark the position of the ancient entrance rather than a point of later collapse or interference. The name Morgan's fort suggests a relatively recent association with a local family or landowner, which is common enough with ringforts across Ireland, places whose pre-Norman origins were absorbed over centuries into the landscape of a different community's memory.