Sitting on a gentle north-north-westward slope in low-lying grassland, with higher ground pressing in from the north, east, and south, the monument is partially self-concealing. The outer bank and its accompanying fosse, the shallow defensive ditch that runs between the two earthen enclosures, only become readable from the south-western to south-south-eastern arc. Approach from the wrong direction and the outer works effectively disappear into the surrounding terrain.

What survives here is a double-banked oval enclosure, roughly 33 metres north to south and 37 metres east to west, with a wide shallow fosse between the two earthen banks and a slighter fosse beyond the outer one. A rath is the usual Irish term for this kind of earthwork enclosure, most commonly associated with early medieval farmsteads, where a family and their animals lived within the protected interior. The entrance is narrow and deliberate: a gap of just 1.2 metres in the inner bank at the north-west, with a corresponding 1-metre gap in the outer bank aligning with it. That pinch-point would have controlled movement in and out of the enclosure with some care. Inside, four distinct house sites are still visible on the ground, giving the monument an unusual quality of legibility. Many ringforts survive as earthworks alone, their domestic interiors long smoothed away by centuries of agriculture; here, the outlines of the buildings that once stood within the banks remain part of the visible record. A townland boundary stream runs just 25 metres to the north, marking the edge of Piercefield itself, a detail that hints at how closely early settlement patterns and later administrative boundaries could echo one another across the centuries.