Where an early medieval enclosure once stood, the ground now offers only a low, barely perceptible arc sweeping from north-north-east to south-south-west, with a diameter of around 33 metres. Ringforts, also known as raths, were the most common form of enclosed settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular earthen bank and ditch enclosing a family's homestead. This one has been levelled almost entirely, leaving nothing that would catch the eye of a casual passer-by.

The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 still showed the site as a hachured circular enclosure with a diameter of roughly 28 metres, meaning it was at least partially legible on the ground at that point. By 1934, when Bowman recorded it, the fort was already described as levelled, a single-ramparted structure of approximately 39 yards in diameter, situated on land belonging to a J. Curtin. The discrepancy in recorded diameters across different surveys is not unusual for sites that have been gradually worn down by ploughing and agricultural activity over generations. What makes the Dromaneen site a little more interesting than a straightforward case of erasure is the presence, roughly 18 metres to the south in the same field, of what may be a standing stone. The two features, a levelled rath and a possible standing stone in close proximity, hint at a landscape that was once organised and meaningful in ways that the current flat pasture gives no indication of.