What remains is a degraded scarp, a low earthen edge tracing a partial arc roughly twenty-two metres across, running from the south through the west and on to the north-east before losing itself entirely. East of a later field bank, no surface trace survives at all. It is the kind of monument that asks more of the imagination than the eye.

Circular enclosures of this type are among the most common prehistoric and early medieval features in the Irish countryside. They could serve as settlement enclosures, as ringforts used by farming families, or as ritual sites, and their original purpose is often impossible to establish without excavation. This particular example at Carrowrevagh More sits on a glacially formed ridge, meaning the land around it was shaped by the slow movement and retreat of ice rather than by human effort. The choice of a slope on such a ridge would have been practical, offering drainage and a degree of elevation above the surrounding pasture. What survives of the enclosure is defined by a scarp, essentially a low earthen drop in the ground surface that once formed part of a bank or boundary. A later field bank cuts across the monument at two points, the north-east and the south, which is a common fate for earthworks that lost their original significance to subsequent generations of farmers dividing up the land.