That subtlety is part of what makes it interesting. Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common settlement type in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as enclosed farmsteads for a single family and their livestock. Most survive as low circular or sub-circular earthworks exactly like this one, easy to overlook in a working agricultural landscape, and easier still to underestimate.

The rath at Milltown North measures 24 metres across in both directions, making it a fairly typical example of its type. An earthen bank encloses the interior, rising about 0.6 metres on the inside and 0.75 metres on the outside, modest figures that nonetheless would have provided a meaningful boundary in their original context. The interior slopes gently downward toward the east, and at some point after the site was recorded, coniferous trees were planted inside the enclosure, which will have altered the ground conditions considerably. In the north-west quadrant, a heap of boulders roughly half a metre high appears to have been dumped over a shallow depression, suggesting the fill of a hole or feature that may once have been more legible. The whole enclosure sits within a small square field of around 30 metres a side, bounded by a dry-stone wall, as if the land itself has been organised around the monument. A comparable enclosure, similarly walled in, lies approximately 700 metres to the east-south-east, raising the possibility that the two sites formed part of the same early landscape of occupation. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

The site sits on a gentle north-west-facing slope in pasture land, so access will depend on the landowner's permission. The planted conifers now inside the enclosure mean that the interior is less open than the record originally described, and visitors looking for the earthen bank should focus on the perimeter rather than expecting a clear central space. The nearby dry-stone field boundary is itself a useful navigational marker, and the paired enclosure to the east-south-east is worth bearing in mind if you are reading the wider field pattern as you go.