Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular earthen bank and outer ditch enclosing a farmstead. Most have been lost to agriculture, development, or simple neglect. This one in Glenlary endures, quietly, in a field.

The monument was already old and partly buried when cartographers first recorded it on the Ordnance Survey Ireland six-inch map of 1840, where it appears as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. By the time the twenty-five-inch edition was published in 1897, its dimensions could be measured more precisely: roughly 21 metres north to south and 24 metres east to west, still reading as a distinct elevated platform. Aerial photography taken between 2005 and 2012 shows the site from above as a roughly circular area enclosed by a bank, with gaps visible at the northeast and southwest, and a trackway cutting across it at the southeast and southwest corners, running on a northwest to southeast axis. A 2021 Google Earth image goes further still, picking out the trace of a fosse, the outer ditch that would originally have reinforced the bank, surviving in an arc from the northwest around through north, east, and south. Glenlary Cottage sits approximately 270 metres to the southeast.

The site sits within reclaimed agricultural land, which means the surrounding ground has been worked and levelled over generations, making the slight rise of the rath all the more legible by contrast. There are no formal facilities or signage here, and access would require navigating private farmland, so any visit should be arranged with appropriate consideration for landowners. The site is most easily appreciated from aerial imagery, where the interplay of bank, fosse trace, and intersecting trackway becomes clear in a way that ground-level observation alone cannot provide.