The overlap is unannounced and easy to miss, but it neatly captures the fate of thousands of such sites across Ireland, absorbed gradually by the landscape of ordinary rural life.

Raths, as ringforts are commonly known in Irish archaeology, were the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They were built as circular earthwork enclosures, defined by one or more banks and ditches, and served as the defended homesteads of farming families. The Killaturly example survives as a roughly circular area measuring approximately 29.7 metres east to west and around 33 metres north to south. Much of the enclosing bank has been removed, particularly along the western and northern arcs, but the southern half retains remnants of a low bank or scarp, marked out by a line of hawthorn bushes. To the north-east and east, the original circuit is just barely readable as a slight rise or undulation in the ground. A field fence, running east to west, cuts straight across the centre of the site, dividing it in the matter-of-fact way that agricultural boundaries tend to do. A second rath lies approximately 80 metres to the north-east, a reminder that these sites rarely occur in isolation; early medieval settlement often clustered, with related farmsteads occupying the same general terrain across generations.