That laneway now cuts through the eastern edge of the enclosure, truncating the bank and erasing whatever formal threshold once marked the way in. It is the kind of quiet, accidental destruction that happens not through deliberate clearance but through generations of ordinary use, a farm track gradually consuming an early medieval boundary.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Most consist of a roughly circular earthen bank, sometimes accompanied by a fosse, or external ditch, enclosing a domestic area where a family would have lived and kept animals. The Toor example is close to circular, measuring around 42 metres north to south and 37.5 metres east to west. Its bank, composed of clay and gravel, survives best in the northern and north-western sectors, where the external face rises between half a metre and just over a metre. There is no visible fosse. A second ringfort is clearly visible on the opposing hillslope to the east, suggesting this part of the Slievenamon foothills was meaningfully settled. The interior of the enclosure is described as very uneven, which often indicates the buried remains of structures beneath the surface. Local tradition holds that there is a cave associated with the site, a detail that most likely refers to a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber built as a place of refuge or storage and commonly found in association with ringforts across Ireland.

The monument is now hemmed in by a young coniferous plantation to the north and west and by rough pasture to the south and east. The bank itself is heavily overgrown with brambles, gorse, and bushes, making the earthwork difficult to read close up. The laneway that damaged the eastern quadrant continues around the southern exterior of the bank, giving a sense of the enclosure's original footprint even where the monument itself has been disturbed.