What survives today is a raised platform, roughly 52 metres across on its north-south axis, edged by a scarp and encircled by an external fosse, the term for the ditch that once helped define and defend the enclosed space within. The fosse is shallowest on the eastern side and deepest as it curves around from the south-west to the west, suggesting either deliberate design or the effects of centuries of differential weathering and agricultural activity. A ring of trees now follows the line of the enclosure, making it clearly legible on satellite imagery even where the earthwork itself has softened with age.

This is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, the most common monument type surviving in the Irish landscape. Ringforts were typically built and occupied during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and served as enclosed farmsteads for a single family or small community. The surrounding bank and ditch provided security for livestock as much as for people. The Boherload example sits on a gentle east-facing slope with, according to the survey compiled by Fiona Rooney for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and uploaded in July 2020, excellent views in all directions, a characteristic siting choice that reinforces the idea that visibility and territorial awareness mattered as much as defensibility. A second enclosure lies approximately 165 metres to the south-east, hinting that this part of County Limerick was once a reasonably busy agricultural landscape in the early medieval period. The site sits around 100 metres west of the townland boundary with Partatotaun.

The monument sits in private pasture land, so access would require the landowner's permission. For those interested in getting a sense of its form before any visit, the tree-lined oval is visible on Google Earth using imagery from November 2019, which gives a clear overhead impression of the enclosure's shape and scale. On the ground, the fosse, though modest in depth, remains measurable, with an internal depth of around 0.45 metres and an external depth of around 0.5 metres, and a base width of roughly 2.7 metres. Winter or early spring, when vegetation is low, is generally the best time to read earthworks like this in the field, when the subtle changes in ground level that mark the scarp become easier to trace.