What was recorded in 1989 as a well-preserved earthwork is now, by all accounts, invisible at ground level; the circular platform and its enclosing bank have been levelled to the point where a visitor walking across the field would have no reason to suspect anything lay beneath their feet.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is among the most common monument types in Ireland, typically an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, defined by one or more circular earthen banks and ditches. The example at Garryclogh was recorded by McCormack in 1989 as measuring roughly 27 metres in diameter, with an enclosing earthen bank some 9 metres wide and standing about 1.2 metres high. At that point it was described as well-preserved, if overgrown. Sometime between that survey and later observation, it ceased to be readable as a monument at all, at least from the surface. The north field boundary that once enclosed the site does, however, survive intact, offering a faint trace of the geometry that would once have defined this small piece of managed early medieval landscape. The surrounding ground still carries good views in all directions, a quality that likely influenced where the original enclosure was placed.