A circular earthwork of roughly thirty metres in diameter, it sat on a gentle west-facing slope, its form defined by a raised bank and an external fosse, which is the ditch dug around a defensive enclosure, with a possible counterscarp bank, a secondary raised edge beyond the ditch, along the northern and western sides. Along the south-east, where the ground rises, the bank and fosse had already been worn or flattened, though a faint causeway marking the original entrance could still be made out in aerial photographs. Today there is nothing to see at ground level.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths when constructed from earthworks rather than stone, are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, with tens of thousands recorded across the island. Most date to the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, and typically served as enclosed farmsteads for a single family or small household. The Kilbride example followed this general pattern in its circular plan and relatively modest scale. What makes it notable now is its absence. Aerial photographs taken under the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography and later government survey work captured it at some point before its removal, but by 1973 the earthworks had been cleared, almost certainly as a result of agricultural improvement. Later aerial images suggest only the faintest trace remained even then.