What survives of this rath, a type of enclosed farmstead typically dating from the early medieval period, is only partially legible. A scarp, essentially a slope in the ground marking where a bank or ditch once stood, traces the enclosure from the south-east around through the south and on to the north-west. Elsewhere, the original enclosing element has been absorbed into a later field bank, its prehistoric identity quietly swallowed by more recent agricultural organisation.

The monument measures roughly 22 metres in diameter, a modest size consistent with a single-family rath. Its north-western arc has suffered the most obvious damage, where quarrying has eaten into the edge of the site. That combination of field boundary reuse and extraction work is a familiar story for lowland ringforts across Connacht; they occupied good, workable land, and successive generations made use of whatever was already there. The result at Eskerballycahill is a monument that requires some imaginative reconstruction, reading the slight rise and fall of ground for what it once enclosed rather than what now visibly remains.