That bank is still there. The rath at Leahys sits on an east-facing slope of a low rise amid undulating pasture, its roughly circular enclosure measuring 34 metres across in both directions, the earthwork standing 1.8 metres high on the outside. It is not dramatic in the way that stone ruins tend to be, but there is something quietly disorienting about encountering it in an ordinary working field, the grass neatly grazed, a few trees rooted into the bank itself.

Raths, also called ringforts, are the most common archaeological monument type in Ireland, with tens of thousands recorded across the island. They were typically the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, roughly 500 to 1000 AD, though some may be earlier, and they functioned as a combination of homestead and livestock enclosure rather than a fortification in any military sense. The earthen bank, or rampart, was complemented by an external ditch known as a fosse, which at Leahys is recorded as roughly two metres wide and half a metre deep. Inside the bank, the interior dips gently down towards the centre and is entirely under grass now, giving no surface indication of whatever structures once stood within. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011 as part of a systematic survey effort.

The most telling detail about the site today is the breach on the eastern side of the bank. It measures 4.5 metres wide and corresponds with a gap in the fosse, suggesting this was the original entrance, since widened at some point to allow cattle into the interior. That kind of gradual, practical alteration is common at surviving ringforts; the monument gets absorbed into the working rhythms of the farm. The site is otherwise free of significant overgrowth, which means the bank profile is readable from close up, and the fosse, though shallow, is still traceable. Visiting in late winter or early spring, before the grass grows long, makes the earthwork easier to read from a slight distance. As with most ringforts in private farmland, access would require permission from the landowner.