The field is still called the kiln field by local people, a piece of oral memory that outlasted the monument itself by an unknown number of generations. There is no visible surface trace today; the site has been levelled entirely into the surrounding farmland.

What we know of its shape and size comes from the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, which depicts it as a hachured circular enclosure roughly twenty-five metres in diameter. A ringfort, or rath, was a roughly circular earthwork enclosure, typically defined by one or more banks and ditches, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period in Ireland. The 1842 map also records a lime kiln sitting on the bank to the south of the enclosure. Lime kilns were used to burn limestone and produce quicklime for agricultural use, mainly to improve soil fertility, and their presence beside a rath suggests the site was being actively repurposed for farming long before the earthwork itself was finally removed. The co-existence of the two features on that mid-nineteenth-century survey captures a moment when the ancient enclosure was already being put to practical use, its banks convenient raw material for an industrial structure.

The field name is perhaps the most durable thing left. Place names and field names in rural Ireland frequently preserve information about landscapes that have otherwise been erased, and kiln field manages to record two layers of the site's history at once, the lime kiln that was built against the rath, and, indirectly, the rath itself.