Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular earthen bank enclosing a farmstead. This one in Reechestown is modest in scale, roughly twenty-seven metres across from north to south and twenty-nine from east to west, but it retains a structural complexity that repays closer attention.

The fort is defined by a round-topped bank with a notable stone content, internally around three-quarters of a metre high and nearly one and a half metres on the outer face. Beyond that bank lies a flat-bottomed fosse, which is the defensive ditch that would have reinforced the enclosure, and beyond that a lower outer bank. In the northern and south-eastern quadrants, an internal stone revetment, the facing of dressed or laid stone that would have stabilised the earthen bank, remains clearly visible. The entrance, narrow at just 1.4 metres wide, sits in the eastern quadrant, a common orientation for ringfort entrances across Ireland. The ground immediately east of it has been quarried out, and in the north-eastern quadrant the outer face of the bank has also been cut into, obliterating the fosse and outer bank there entirely. The south-eastern section of the fosse has widened over time due to cattle erosion, and the southern bank is noticeably worn down. Field boundaries in the north-eastern and south-western quadrants now press against the monument, running north-west to south-east.

For anyone approaching through the surrounding pasture, the site reads at first as little more than a raised, overgrown ring. The vegetation encroaching on the interior makes the full circuit of the bank difficult to trace cleanly, but the stone revetment visible in the northern and south-eastern sections offers a direct sense of the construction effort involved. The narrow eastern entrance, once you locate it, is one of the more legible features remaining.