What survives is a subcircular boundary roughly sixty metres across, most of it now levelled into the surrounding landscape, with only one arc of wall still legible as the boundary of the burial ground that occupies the north-eastern quadrant. Ordnance Survey maps from 1842, 1903, and 1940 all record its outline consistently, which tells you something useful: the enclosure was already a ruin by the time cartographers first drew it, yet its shape persisted in the land long enough to be traced across a century of surveying.

The townland name, Kilgobnet, derives from the Irish Cill Ghobnatan, meaning the church of St. Gobnait, a saint closely associated with this part of Cork and particularly venerated at Ballyvourney nearby. The enclosure fits the pattern of an early ecclesiastical site, a roughly circular boundary demarcating sacred ground in a manner common across early medieval Ireland. Within the north-eastern quadrant sit both the burial ground and a bullaun stone, a type of boulder with one or more deliberately hollowed depressions, often associated with early Christian sites and sometimes used for grinding or ritual purposes. A second bullaun stone lies about twelve metres to the south of the enclosure proper, outside the boundary entirely, which gives some pause. Whether it was always there or has shifted over time is not recorded, but its position just beyond the edge adds a small puzzle to an already fragmentary site.