The gesture is practical rather than reverential, yet it means the ringfort at Glencoshabinnia has survived, more or less, on a steep northwest-facing slope in rough meadow at the edge of the Galty mountains.

The enclosure is a bivallate ringfort, meaning it is defended by two concentric banks rather than the single bank more commonly encountered across the Irish countryside. These were the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, used by farming families who built in earth, stone, and timber. This particular example is oval in plan, measuring approximately 41 metres north to south and 33 metres east to west. Its inner bank has been reduced largely to a scarp, a gradual slope where a more pronounced raised bank once stood, and a fosse, the shallow ditch that once reinforced the enclosure, still traces the circuit in the southeast to southwest sector. The outer bank, where it survives, incorporates a good deal of stone in its composition, reflecting the rocky terrain immediately below Galtymore. In the northern quadrant, that outer bank has been absorbed into a field boundary running northeast to southwest, one of the more common fates for earthworks that were still visible and structurally useful long after their original purpose was forgotten. Tractor paths have damaged sections in the south and west-northwest, the interior has been divided by a post-and-wire fence, and the northeast sector shows signs of what may have been shallow quarrying at some point.

The site sits on ground that tilts naturally with the hillside, so the interior itself slopes northwest, giving the impression that the builders were working with the mountain rather than against it. The road that curves around the northeast to southeast arc is the clearest way to orient yourself to the monument's shape from ground level, though the outer bank is most legible in the southern and western sectors where it has not yet been claimed by later field systems.