What survives is a raised platform, most visible on its southern side where it still stands around 1.8 metres above the surrounding ground. It is the kind of remnant that most people would walk past without a second thought, reading it as a natural undulation in the land rather than the ghost of a defended settlement.

A rath, to use the Irish term for this type of earthwork enclosure, was typically a circular area bounded by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. The Ballinvredig example was a reasonably substantial one. The first Ordnance Survey mapping of the area, carried out in 1842, recorded it clearly as a circular enclosure approximately 42 metres in diameter. By the time the revised six-inch map was produced in 1902, something had already changed: the enclosure no longer appears as a distinct monument but as a slight curve within a field fence running roughly north-northeast to south-southwest. The bank had been absorbed into the working landscape, its outline preserved only incidentally in the line of a boundary. That quiet disappearance into the fieldscape is a remarkably common fate for ringforts across Ireland, but the Ballinvredig site went a step further when it was levelled entirely around 1974, the interior ploughed into the surrounding tillage fields.