No bank, no ditch, no raised ground announces its presence. What remains is essentially a cartographic ghost, visible on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 as a neat circular enclosure roughly thirty metres across, but leaving nothing for the eye to find today.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths or lioses, were the most common form of early medieval rural settlement in Ireland, typically consisting of a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead and for keeping livestock safe overnight. This particular site was once part of a small local cluster. Writing in 1940, a researcher named Power noted that there had been at least five such lioses in the immediate area, of which three had already been destroyed by that point. The Glanturkin rath appears to have followed them into near-total obliteration, lost to centuries of agricultural tillage. One element does survive, however, at least below ground. A souterrain, which is an underground stone-lined passage associated with ringforts and thought to have served for storage or as a refuge, has been recorded in the interior of the enclosure. It is a common enough pairing, a souterrain tucked within a rath, but here it is the only physical trace of a settlement that once organised life on this patch of Cork farmland.