That kind of domestic indifference is not uncommon with ringforts, but it gives this one a particularly telling quality: half the interior is heavily overgrown to the south of the boundary, and the northern half has been put to use as a dump for farmyard manure. The earthwork itself, roughly circular and about 35 metres across, sits on a north-facing slope, its low enclosing bank still legible despite the encroachment.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when formed from earthen banks rather than stone, were the standard farmstead type of early medieval Ireland, broadly spanning the period from around the fifth to the twelfth century. They were typically enclosed homesteads, the bank and its accompanying external ditch, or fosse, providing a degree of security for a family and their livestock. At Rooves More, the outer bank stands to a height of around 1.15 metres externally, with the internal face considerably lower at roughly 0.3 metres, and a shallow fosse remains visible along the northern and northeastern arc. The southeastern to south-southwestern stretch of bank is the most obscured, buried under growth. What makes the wider field particularly interesting is the company the ringfort keeps: a standing stone and a cup-marked stone, the latter a prehistoric rock bearing shallow, circular hollows whose precise purpose remains debated, both lie to the northwest of the site. The clustering of monuments from different periods in a single field suggests this was a landscape with a long and layered history of human attention.