A road and boundary wall have cut into the south-west and west sides, and much of the original bank has been levelled, leaving the site readable mainly as a slightly raised circular area measuring around 17.4 metres north to south. A scarp up to 1.5 metres high survives along the eastern to south-south-western arc, which is enough to give a sense of the original enclosure's ambition, but the overall impression today is of something that has been quietly absorbed back into the working landscape.

The site belongs to the class of monument known as a rath, the most common type of ringfort found across Ireland. A rath was typically a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to the twelfth century, as a farmstead and place of residence for a family of some local standing. At Laughil, the interior of what remains is slightly concave, a characteristic sometimes produced by centuries of erosion or by the original construction method. More intriguing is a shallow hollow, measuring approximately three metres by 1.5 metres, that has been dug into the scarp on the east-south-east side, and a possible souterrain recorded in the north-east quadrant. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically associated with ringforts and thought to have served for storage, refuge, or both. Whether the hollow at the scarp represents an old attempt to access that same underground feature, or something else entirely, is not recorded.

The site sits in ordinary farmland, and the earthwork itself is subtle enough that a visitor walking the area might not immediately read it as archaeological at all. The surviving scarp on the eastern side is the most physically legible part of the monument, and the slight concavity of the interior becomes more apparent once you know what you are looking at.