The earthwork sits on a gentle north-east-facing slope of a natural rise, with open views across the surrounding countryside. It is a place where the archaeology is now largely a matter of inference: a barely perceptible rise in the ground, a curving field boundary that quietly traces the arc of the old enclosing bank, and a faint outline visible only as a cropmark on aerial photography.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were enclosed farmsteads typical of early medieval Ireland, usually defined by one or more circular earthen banks and an outer ditch. By 1837, when the Ordnance Survey produced its first six-inch mapping of the country, Condragh Fort was clear enough to be drawn as a circular enclosure, complete with a field boundary extending from the south. It was named on the OS Fair Plan map of the same year. By the time the revised OS six-inch edition appeared, the ringfort itself had been omitted entirely, though the curving field boundary to the east survived, preserving the ghost of the enclosure in the landscape. A survey visit in 1971 found a levelled, roughly circular area measuring approximately 27 metres north-east to south-west and 26 metres north-west to south-east. A modern wall enclosed it from the north-north-east around to the south, traces of an external fosse, the outer ditch that once reinforced the bank, remained faintly visible at the south-west, and the interior showed no entrance feature or significant surface remains. Another ringfort lies roughly 180 metres to the north-west, suggesting this part of Kilgawny was once a settled and organised early medieval landscape, even if the evidence for that is now easier to read on a map than on the ground.