That kind of overlap, where a working agricultural landscape and an ancient monument quietly coexist, is not unusual in Ireland, but it gives this particular site a peculiar layered quality. The ringfort, or rath, a circular earthen enclosure of the sort that served as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, has been half-absorbed by the field system around it, its northeastern arc now functioning as an ordinary boundary rather than a defensive perimeter.

The site was recorded and compiled by Denis Power, with notes uploaded in August 2011. It sits in pasture on an east-facing slope at Lisgordan in County Limerick, occupying a roughly circular area measuring approximately thirty metres north to south and thirty-one metres east to west. An earthen bank encloses the interior from the south-southeast around to the northeast, beyond which the existing field boundary takes over and incorporates what remains of the bank on the other side. Outside the bank, a fosse, that is, a defensive ditch, runs from the south-southeast to the northeast, measuring around two metres wide and just under a metre deep. The bank itself survives best on its southwestern to northern arc, where the interior height reaches roughly half a metre and the exterior height around one point one metres. There is an eroded break in the bank at the northeast.

The interior slopes downward toward the east and its southern half in particular has been overtaken by briars and nettles, so close inspection on the ground is not straightforward. The bank is covered in dense overgrowth for most of its circuit, which makes the clearer northwestern section the most legible stretch for anyone wanting to read the earthworks. The field boundary skirts the outer fosse along the south-southwestern side, so the relationship between the ancient monument and the later agricultural layout is visible if you trace the line carefully. Access to the surrounding land would require permission from the landowner, as is standard with sites of this kind in active pasture.