What remains is a faint circular depression in the ground, the kind of hollow that most walkers would step across without a second thought. Locally, though, it has always been known as the site of a fort, which points to a persistence of memory that outlasted the earthwork itself.

A rath, or ringfort, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more circular earthen banks and ditches. They are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, though many have been ploughed or levelled out of existence over the centuries. This one in Bawnmore was recorded in 1934 by Bowman, who described it as a levelled single-ramparted fort with a diameter of approximately thirty yards, situated on land belonging to a Mr Foley. By that point the rampart had already gone, leaving only the trace that is still faintly visible today. The survival of any impression at all, given the site's agricultural setting, is more than might be expected.