What remains is the ghost of a boundary rather than a boundary itself, a subtle change in the land's surface that requires a slow eye and a degree of patience to read properly.

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, and used as a farmstead by a family of some local standing. This example in the townland of Court, in the barony of Shanid, was still recognisable as an embanked circular enclosure when the Ordnance Survey recorded it on their six-inch map of 1841. Since then, agricultural activity has levelled the monument considerably. A survey compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the national record in August 2011 describes what survives: a roughly oval area measuring approximately 21 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west, defined by a very gradual scarped edge, that is, a low stepped drop in the ground surface, reaching about 1.6 metres in height and 14 metres in width. On the south-south-west to west-south-west side, even this scarp has been removed by a small quarry measuring roughly 6 by 4 metres, and a field boundary has cut across the lower end of the scarp on the south-east to south-west. A faint bank, around 6.5 metres wide and only 0.35 metres high, survives along the south-south-east to south-south-west arc. The interior is level and the whole site lies under pasture.

Because this is farmland, access depends entirely on the landowner, and there is no formal public access or signage to speak of. The site rewards visitors who already know what to look for; without prior knowledge of the survey dimensions and orientation, the surviving scarp reads simply as an uneven field edge. The best conditions for spotting earthwork remains like this are low winter sunlight, when shadows rake across slight undulations that would be invisible in summer. Standing near the centre of the interior and looking outward, the gradual fall of the surviving scarp becomes perceptible, and the missing section where the quarry intervened gives the circuit a characteristic gap that confirms the reading of the monument.