The site is easily overlooked today, its outlines softened by time and weather, but the logic of its placement is still legible in the landscape.

This is a ringfort, or rath, a type of enclosed farmstead that was the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, broadly from the fifth to the twelfth century. Typically circular or near-circular in plan, ringforts were defined by earthen banks and ditches that enclosed a family's living space and protected their livestock. At Lissyconor, the enclosure is subcircular, measuring roughly 25.5 metres north to south and 22.4 metres east to west. Rather than a simple earthen bank, this one is stone-faced, which gives it a slightly more substantial character than many comparable sites. An external fosse, the ditch that runs outside the bank, survives partially and is most visible along the southern, western, and north-western arcs of the circuit. The rest has been worn down or obscured to the point where the site is now described as poorly preserved. The undulating grassland around it and the bogland spreading out to the north-east and south suggest the kind of marginal but workable ground that early farming communities often occupied, positioned on higher land above wetter terrain.