Part of what made it a coherent monument has been folded into the farm infrastructure around it, literally: around 1975, according to the landowner, the enclosing earthen bank was levelled and the material used as fill for a farm passageway that now runs across the site's western side. The fort that once stood here has, in a quiet and practical way, become the land it used to organise.

Ringforts, also known as raths, are roughly circular enclosures defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, built predominantly during the early medieval period as farmsteads and defended homesteads. They are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, yet each one carries its own particular history of survival or loss. This example at Caher (Hayes) was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1923 as a roughly circular enclosure with a diameter of approximately 70 metres. The survey compiled by Denis Power, uploaded to the record in August 2011, shows what remains: on the eastern to south-eastern arc, an earthen bank still stands to a height of 2.15 metres, where it has been absorbed into the field boundary system and so preserved incidentally. On the north-north-east to east-north-east arc, the enclosure survives only as a very slight scarped edge, just 0.15 metres high and around 6 metres wide, giving a working diameter of approximately 68 metres. That modest ridge in the turf is almost all that marks where the bank once ran.

The site sits in private agricultural land, so access would require the landowner's permission. Visitors who do gain access should approach the eastern side of the field boundary to find the most legible section of surviving bank, which reaches well above head height in places and gives the clearest sense of the monument's original scale. The interior slopes downward toward the south, a detail easy to miss underfoot but worth noting as you walk it. The western side, where the farm passageway crosses, shows nothing of the original enclosure. Reading the landscape here requires patience and a willingness to look for the faint scarped edge on the northern arc, a barely-there rise in the grass that represents the last visible trace of one side of the monument.