The land is cleared pasture now, and nothing breaks the surface to suggest that anything was ever here. What survives is a cartographic memory: the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map records a circular enclosure roughly 25 metres in diameter at this spot, a measurement modest even by the standards of early medieval ringforts, which were typically earthen or stone-built enclosures used as farmsteads and settlement sites.

What makes the location more than simply a case of a vanished monument is its immediate neighbourhood. Within a radius of less than 200 metres, two related enclosures have survived where this one has not. A rath, which is the earthen bank-and-ditch form of ringfort, lies about 55 metres to the north-west. A cashel, the stone-walled equivalent, sits roughly 160 metres to the north-east. Three enclosures of this type in such close proximity suggests a concentration of early settlement activity in this corner of Galway, a clustering that archaeologists sometimes associate with extended family groupings or successive phases of occupation. The Polldonoghoe site, catalogued separately from its neighbours, was presumably of the same general character, though whether it was earthen or stone-built, and precisely when it fell out of use or was cleared, is not recorded.