The ringfort at Toberaquill survives only as a faint depression in the ground and a low rise of earth, the kind of thing that registers as a slight unevenness underfoot rather than anything a casual walker might stop to examine. What makes this particular case quietly telling is not what remains, but the gap between what was once recorded and what is visible today.

Ringforts, roughly circular enclosures defined by earthen banks and ditches, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically used as farmsteads between around the fifth and twelfth centuries. The one at Toberaquill appears on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, published in 1837, where it is marked as a circular enclosure, a clear enough feature to have caught a surveyor's eye. By later editions of the OS maps, it had vanished from the record entirely, which suggests that the levelling happened sometime after the mid-nineteenth century, most likely as agricultural land was worked more intensively. What survives now is a roughly oval area measuring approximately 31 metres north-west to south-east and 35 metres north-east to south-west, sitting no more than 0.6 metres above the surrounding ground. The enclosing fosse, a shallow defensive or boundary ditch, is around 4.4 metres wide but only about 25 centimetres deep, and is only legible from the south-east to southern arc of the monument. A modern field fence cuts across the southern perimeter, compounding the difficulty of reading the shape as a whole.

The site sits on a north-north-east facing slope to the east of a ridge in undulating grassland, with open views across the landscape to the north-west and north-east. The townland boundary with Clonkill runs along the road just 30 metres to the east. The scarp defining the interior is the most tangible thing left, and even that requires knowing where to look.