The outer bank has been incorporated into a modern field fence to the west, so the boundary between ancient enclosure and contemporary farmland has become genuinely blurred.

The site sits on an east-facing slope at Ratharoon in County Cork, in what is now pasture. A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century, built to protect a household and its livestock behind earthen banks and ditches. This example is a roughly circular area of about 46 metres across its longest axis, enclosed across much of its circuit by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse, the ditch between them, cut to a depth of around 1.4 metres. The inner bank survives to an internal height of about 0.9 metres, while the outer bank stands taller at around 1.7 metres and retains a berm, a flat shelf of ground, on its inner face. A low rise running from the west-south-west round to the south-east is all that remains of what appears to have been a levelled third bank, suggesting the original enclosure was more elaborate than what survives today.