While paired or clustered ringforts do occur across Ireland, finding two in such close proximity in the Limerick countryside quietly raises questions that no one has yet answered in writing. The one at Cloghkeating that draws attention here is the lesser-discussed of the two neighbours, a rath, meaning a roughly circular earthen enclosure typically dating from the early medieval period and used as a farmstead or place of local defence, that has been slowly disappearing beneath its own vegetation for decades.

The site was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1924 as a circular enclosure measuring approximately twenty metres across in both directions, enclosed by a bank running from the southwest around to the southeast, with the rest of the circuit marked only as a line, suggesting that even then parts of it were less distinct. What survives on the ground is more complex than that early mapping implied. The monument presents as a sub-circular area defined by two concentric earthen banks with a fosse, or ditch, running between them. The inner bank, standing to a height of around 1.15 metres on its exterior face, is well preserved all the way round and retains a narrow gap at the south-southeast, roughly 1.1 metres wide, which is thought to represent the original entrance. The outer bank is considerably slighter and has been partially absorbed into later field boundaries along its western and northeastern stretches. A collapsed stone wall further complicates the southern portion, pressing into both the outer bank and the fosse. Denis Power, who compiled the site record uploaded in March 2013, noted that the interior surface is uneven and heavily obscured by dense scrub and fallen trees.

Accessing the site requires crossing private farmland, so permission from the landowner is essential before attempting a visit. Even with permission, the dense scrub covering the interior makes it difficult to read the earthworks clearly from within; the banks are better appreciated by walking the outer circuit where field boundaries have not entirely swallowed them. The fosse, though only 1.5 metres wide, remains traceable all the way around, which gives a useful sense of the original layout even when vegetation blocks the view. The neighbouring ringfort to the northeast adds an unusual dimension to the visit, and standing between the two it is possible to appreciate just how deliberately, or perhaps coincidentally, close together these two enclosures were placed in what is now ordinary Limerick pastureland.