The ground rises just enough to suggest something deliberate underneath, but the edges have gone, absorbed into the surrounding reclaimed pasture without ceremony or clear boundary.

A ringfort, known in Irish as a rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead and place of enclosure during the early medieval period. This one at Outeragh was, by any measure, a significant example. When recorded by Cahill in 1982, it was still upstanding and measured some 60 metres in overall diameter, with a bank, an external fosse (a ditch running outside the bank), and an additional internal bank that divided the interior. Even then, the northern side was considerably eroded. In the decades since, the field boundaries to the west and north were removed, and the monument itself was levelled. Only a single field boundary to the south, running east to west, survives in any recognisable form nearby. What Cahill documented in the early 1980s now exists only in the record; on the ground, the monument is functionally gone.