On the 1925 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, this site in Curraheen appears with a telling label: incomplete enclosure. It is a quiet admission that whatever survives here does not read as a tidy, closed ring. Most ringforts, the circular earthwork enclosures that once served as farmsteads for early medieval Irish families, present themselves as coherent forms. This one does not, and that partial quality is itself part of what makes it worth attention.

The site occupies a shelf of high ground on the north-east-facing foothills of the Comeragh Mountains in County Waterford, with a west-to-east ravine cutting immediately to the north-west. The rath is subcircular in plan, roughly 35 metres east to west and 30 metres north to south. Its eastern arc is defined by a scarp, a low step in the ground some four metres wide and about half a metre high, while to the south and west there are the remains of a bank with an outer fosse, or defensive ditch, running around the circuit. The northern edge is simply curtailed by the ravine, which may have served as a natural boundary when the enclosure was in use, making a formal bank unnecessary on that side. There is no visible entrance, which is not unusual where earthworks have partially degraded, but it adds to the sense that the site never quite resolved itself into legible form. A later field bank bisects the interior on a north-south line near the western edge, dividing the enclosed space between open grass to the east and scrub to the west, two very different conditions sitting side by side within the same ancient boundary.