The site is partially levelled, but enough survives to trace its original form, and the gap between what it once was and what now remains is itself part of the interest.

A rath, as this type of earthwork is known, was a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and an external ditch, used in early medieval Ireland primarily as a farmstead and place of residence. The Ballyhander example sat just below the crest of a ridge, a position typical of the period, offering decent visibility without full exposure to the elements. Its circular enclosure measured approximately 40 metres in diameter. It appears on both the 1842 and 1902 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps as a clearly defined circular feature, which means it was still legible as a monument well into the modern era. Since then, agricultural activity has taken its toll. The bank survives only along an arc running from the west-northwest to the north-northeast, where the internal height reaches roughly one metre and the external face stands about 1.7 metres. The fosse, the external ditch that would originally have reinforced the enclosure's boundary, is visible as a depression to the north-northeast. A spread of stone across the interior hints at former structures, though what form these took is not recorded.