No earthwork rises from the ground, no bank or ditch interrupts the hillside; the site survives only as a circle drawn on an Ordnance Survey six-inch map and in a handful of lines of description accumulated over the past century.

Ringforts, also known as raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically built during the early medieval period in Ireland, consisting of a circular area bounded by one or more earthen banks and ditches. They are among the most common archaeological monument types in the country, yet even common things can quietly disappear. Writing in 1914, a researcher named Neary recorded this particular example at Knockaunbrack as a circular earthen fort roughly twenty-eight metres in diameter, and noted that local people knew it as Naughton's Rath, a name that ties the site to a family or landowner now otherwise unrecorded here. That local name is, in a sense, the most vivid thing remaining. The physical structure it once described has since been lost, levelled by agriculture or time or both, leaving the OS cartographers' ink outline as the closest thing to a monument the site still possesses.