What remains is a faint, roughly circular rise in the pasture, measuring around 31 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west, with a maximum height of just half a metre. A gap opens to the north-north-west where an entrance may once have been. The interior is level ground, indistinguishable at first glance from the surrounding slope.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead and place of protection. Thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation. The one at Ballyskerdane is notable mainly for how little survives. Local information recorded before 1994 suggests it was deliberately levelled sometime before around 1953, most likely to make the land more workable for agriculture. The act of levelling a ringfort, once commonplace on Irish farms, effectively erased a feature that in many cases dated back over a thousand years. What remains at Ballyskerdane is the ghost of that process, a slight swelling in the grass that marks where the bank once stood.