The ground here is level reclaimed pasture, and whatever earthwork once rose from this hillside has been so thoroughly absorbed by agricultural improvement that no trace of it remains at ground level. A rath, to use the Irish term, was typically an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, its circular bank and ditch marking out a family's home and livestock enclosure. Here, that form has been erased entirely, leaving only the faintest surface undulations, most likely the result of the reclamation work itself rather than any surviving archaeology beneath.

What keeps the site on the map is the memory held in the landscape. The landowner has long known that the area where the townland boundary between Derreenataggart and Curradonohoe takes an unusual detour, curving roughly twenty metres to the south-west over a forty-metre stretch, has traditionally been called a lios, the Irish word for an enclosed place or fairy fort. Townland boundaries in Ireland frequently followed the edges of ancient earthworks, and a boundary that kinks unexpectedly around a particular spot often marks where something once stood. That the curve corresponds with the suspected location of the rath gives the local name a quiet credibility. A possible souterrain has also been identified at the same location; a souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage associated with early medieval settlement, typically used for storage or as a place of refuge, and its presence would lend further weight to the idea that this otherwise unremarkable field was once a site of some domestic significance.