The enclosure, roughly oval and measuring around 26 metres east to west and 22 metres north to south, survives only partially. On the eastern to south-western arc, a low earth and stone bank still holds its shape, if modestly, rising less than half a metre above the interior. On the opposite side, the bank has been almost entirely erased, leaving a spread of flattened material that hints at what once stood there. A field boundary cuts across the south-western arc, tidying the old ring into the geometry of modern farming. A ringfort, or rath, was a type of enclosed farmstead typical of early medieval Ireland, usually defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and built to house a family and their livestock. This one sits around 200 metres north-east of Cloonmealane Castle, a proximity that places it in a landscape with a long sequence of occupation.

According to local memory, the rath was deliberately levelled during the 1930s, which accounts for the dramatic difference between the two surviving arcs. The eastern bank, still measurable at just over a metre wide, was apparently spared or only partially worked, while the western side was reduced to a faint swell in the ground. This kind of deliberate clearance was not uncommon in twentieth-century Ireland, when farmers sought to bring marginal or awkward ground into fuller agricultural use. The result here is a site that reads as an absence as much as a presence, where the contrast between a surviving fragment and a flattened stretch tells its own story about the competing pressures on the Irish countryside over the past century.