It exists, for all practical purposes, only from the air.

What is known about the site comes from aerial photography, specifically a crop-mark recorded in the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography. Crop-marks form when buried archaeological features, such as the filled-in ditches of old enclosures, affect the growth of crops above them, creating ghostly outlines that become legible only when viewed from altitude, often during dry summers when the differential moisture in the soil makes itself known through variations in colour and height of the vegetation. In this case, the mark reveals a univallate circular enclosure, meaning a roughly circular area defined by a single surrounding ditch or bank, approximately 27 metres in diameter. Enclosures of this type are common across Ireland and are frequently interpreted as the remains of early medieval ring-forts, farmsteads enclosed for the protection of livestock and family. At Scartbarry, nothing more specific than the outline survives in the record, no excavation, no finds, no associated structures. The enclosure is defined entirely by that one photograph and the shadow of a ditch that has not been open for perhaps a thousand years.