Its circular enclosure measures 26 metres in diameter, defined by a bank of earth and stone that survives in its most substantial form on the south-western to western arc, where the outer face still stands to a height of over two metres. A fosse, the external ditch that would once have reinforced the sense of boundary and exclusion, runs along the north-western to south-western stretch, still measurable at nearly ten metres wide. There are two breaches in the bank, one to the south-south-west and another to the west-north-west, and traces of a possible low outer bank survive on the northern to southern side. The interior is level.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when they are earthen rather than stone-built, were the dominant settlement form in early medieval Ireland, most commonly in use between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. They served as enclosed farmsteads, the bank and fosse providing security for a family, their livestock, and their stores. The Scraggaun example is modest in scale, as the majority of Irish ringforts are, and its earthworks show the layered complexity typical of sites that may have been modified or maintained over generations. What makes its position quietly striking is the sightline it commands southward toward the Rock of Cashel, the great limestone outcrop that rises from the Tipperary plain and served for centuries as the seat of the kings of Munster. Whether the people who built and used this enclosure regarded that view with reverence, pragmatism, or simple familiarity is impossible to say, but the coincidence of placement is hard to ignore. The site sits just to the east of the Ardmayle to Cashel tertiary road, a route whose alignment runs roughly north-north-west to south-south-east.