The example at Ballindigny in County Tipperary occupies a break in a south-west-facing slope on a steep hill, now given over to pasture, and its proportions are modest but legible: a roughly circular enclosure about 30 metres across, defined by a bank and an external fosse, the term for the surrounding ditch that would have reinforced the bank's defensive or enclosing function. The interior slopes gently downward toward the south-west, which gives the site a slightly lopsided feel when you read its geometry against the surrounding hillside.

The bank itself survives to a height of just over a metre on its exterior face, somewhat less on the interior, and the fosse runs to nearly four metres wide and almost three-quarters of a metre deep. These are the bones of what was most likely an early medieval farmstead, the kind of enclosed settlement that a local family of some modest standing would have occupied between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. A later field bank, running north-east to south-west, cuts across the north-western quadrant of the enclosure, a sign of how agricultural boundaries have been redrawn over time without much regard for what lay beneath. That north-western sector has suffered accordingly, with both bank and fosse considerably reduced where the two features intersect. About six metres beyond the north-eastern edge, a shallow quarry of around 20 metres in diameter has been grassed over, its original purpose unrecorded but its presence a reminder that the land around the ringfort has been worked in multiple ways across different periods. A possible causewayed entrance, the kind of raised crossing-point left across a fosse to allow access, may survive at the south-west, though it is heavily overgrown with brambles and difficult to read clearly on the ground.