Today, nothing can be seen. The ground gives no indication that anything was ever there.

The first edition of the OS six-inch map series, produced in Ireland during the 1830s, captured the landscape at a moment before widespread agricultural improvement had erased many of its older features. Circular enclosures of this kind are often the remnants of ringforts, the most common monument type in the Irish countryside, which served as enclosed farmsteads, typically from the early medieval period. They were usually defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches surrounding a central living area. The site at Clashaganny sits on a rise overlooking bogland to the south, which is precisely the kind of elevated, well-drained ground such enclosures tend to occupy. The reclamation of the surrounding bogland, however, likely brought with it the levelling and ploughing that removed whatever earthwork once marked the spot.