The site is poorly preserved, but its essential form remains legible: a roughly circular platform some 27.6 metres in diameter, defined by a scarp, or cut face of earth, that still rises to around three metres. That a feature so reduced can still present a three-metre drop gives some sense of how substantial these enclosures once were.

Ringforts, known also as raths, were the dominant settlement form in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They served as enclosed farmsteads, their earthen banks or stone walls marking the boundary between the domestic world and the open land beyond. What makes the Moneyveen example particularly worth noting is the probable presence of a souterrain in its interior. A souterrain is an underground passage or chamber, usually constructed from stone, that was built beneath or adjacent to a ringfort. Their exact purpose is still debated, but they are generally thought to have served as cool storage spaces, refuges, or both. Here, the souterrain remains unexcavated and unconfirmed, identified only as probable, which is itself a small reminder of how much early medieval rural life remains just beneath the surface of the Irish countryside, literally and otherwise.