The roughly circular enclosure sits on a gentle south-facing slope in what is now pasture, and it is the kind of place that rewards a slow look rather than a passing glance. Two concentric earthen banks enclose the site, separated by a fosse, which is simply a ditch dug to reinforce the defensive barrier between them. That combination of double bank and intervening ditch marks this out as a more elaborately defended example than the single-banked raths that make up the majority of Ireland's estimated 40,000 or so ringforts.

Ringforts, known in Irish as ráth or lios depending on regional usage, were the typical farmstead enclosure of early medieval Ireland, in use roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They were not military fortifications in the modern sense but rather enclosed homesteads, the banks and ditches serving to keep livestock in and wolves or rivals out. The Kilrodane example measures approximately 26 metres across on its north-north-west to south-south-east axis. Its entrance, around 2.2 metres wide, cuts through both banks at the south-south-east, a southerly orientation that is common among ringforts, likely for practical reasons of shelter and light. The site was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with notes uploaded in August 2011.

The condition of the site today is mixed. Much of the inner bank and the external bank are heavily overgrown, and the fosse between the south-west and north sections has been used as a rubbish dump, which has obscured those portions considerably. The interior is level but waterlogged, and the combination of standing water and rough pasture has encouraged the growth of irises, which in flowering season give the enclosed space an oddly decorative quality entirely unintended by whoever built it. A modern field boundary runs up to the enclosure at the south-south-east, immediately north of the original entrance, complicating the approach slightly. The site is on private farmland, so access would require the landowner's permission. Those who do make it inside the enclosure should look for the clearer stretches of the banks on the eastern and northern arcs, where the original profile of this double-bank construction is most legible.