Sitting in open pasture, the rath at Ballyneety is one of several early medieval enclosures clustered in close proximity here, and while it retains much of its physical form, an adjacent ringfort to the northeast has been levelled entirely, its outline now visible only as a cropmark, the kind of ghostly impression that shows up in aerial photography when buried features affect how grass grows above them.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths when defined primarily by earthen banks rather than stone, were the most common settlement type in early medieval Ireland, typically enclosing a farmstead and its associated buildings. This example was already being recorded as a circular enclosure by the time the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch mapping in 1840. By the more detailed twenty-five-inch survey of 1897, enough remained to document the site's structure with some precision: an internal bank roughly four metres wide running throughout the circuit, a fosse, which is the ditch between the bank and the outer boundary, reaching up to four and a half metres across from east through south to west, and an outer scarp completing the enclosure. The overall dimensions run to around forty-four metres northeast to southwest and forty-two metres east to west, with an internal diameter of approximately twenty-four metres. One small but telling detail recorded in the 1897 survey is a spring well sitting within the fosse on the southeast side, its water channelled outward through a drain that cuts across the outer bank to the east, suggesting the site's occupants managed the natural hydrology of the ground carefully.

The monument sits in pastureland, and as with most Irish ringforts in agricultural settings, access depends on landowner permission rather than any formal public right of way. A Google Earth image taken in April 2015 shows the earthwork partially overgrown, with the cropmark of the levelled neighbouring fort clearly visible to the northeast. For anyone interested in reading a landscape rather than simply looking at it, the combination of a still-upstanding rath and its vanished neighbour in such close proximity offers a useful lesson in how unevenly the past survives above ground.