The site at Daroge is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of circular enclosed settlement that was the most common form of farmstead across early medieval Ireland. This one is modest in its current form: a roughly circular raised area about 37 metres in diameter, ringed by a low bank of earth and stone that barely clears half a metre at its highest point and runs between three and three and a half metres wide. Nothing announces it as anything other than a slight irregularity in the field.

What the ground holds now is only a fraction of what was once here. A survey carried out in 1976 recorded an external fosse, which is a defensive ditch dug around the outside of the bank, as well as fragmentary traces of a possible second, outer bank beyond it. Both features have since been levelled, most likely through generations of agricultural activity, leaving only the innermost raised platform. The original entrance, which in better-preserved raths is often a clear gap or causeway through the bank, is no longer recognisable. The structure was never especially elaborate, but the presence of a fosse and a hint of an outer bank suggests it once had at least some of the layered defences that marked a more substantial enclosure. What survives today is the skeleton of a skeleton.