What the 1841 Ordnance Survey recorded as a tidy circular enclosure, roughly thirty metres across, has since shifted its shape, or at least its visible outline. The earthwork that survives in a gentle rise above the undulating pasture of Tuogh, in County Limerick's Kenry barony, is no longer quite the circle the nineteenth-century surveyors mapped. It now presents itself as a wedge-shaped area, measuring thirty-four metres north to south and twenty-three metres east to west, with only part of its perimeter formed by the original curved earthen bank.

The monument belongs to the category of ringforts, known in Irish as raths, which are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape. They are typically circular or subcircular enclosures defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and most date to the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. This particular example, compiled by Denis Power for the archaeological record, retains an arc of curving earthen bank running from the north-east to the south-west. The bank itself is modest, standing about half a metre high on the interior and marginally less on the exterior. What makes the site's present appearance stranger still is that the western and northern sides of the enclosure are no longer defined by that original bank at all, but by dry-stone field walls, which meet at the north-west corner. A remnant of dry-stone walling also runs along the top of the surviving earthen bank, suggesting some later reuse of the structure as a field boundary, a common fate for such monuments in farming landscapes.

The interior is level ground, now covered by mature trees, which both protect and obscure whatever might lie beneath. The site sits atop a slight rise within pastureland, which means its elevated position is perceptible without being dramatic. Access to ringforts in agricultural settings typically depends on the goodwill of landowners, and visitors should make enquiries locally before approaching across private land. Once there, the interplay of the original earthwork and the later field walls repays close attention, since running your eye along the boundary makes clear just how much of what looks like an ancient enclosure is, in fact, a much later addition resting on older bones.