What survives is barely enough to read as a monument at all: a fragment of earthen bank along the north-western and northern arc, and elsewhere just a low scarp, the ghostly shoulder of what was once a more complete enclosure roughly 32 metres across.

Raths, as these earthwork enclosures are known, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from around the fifth to the twelfth century. They served as farmsteads, their circular banks and ditches defining a protected space for a household and its livestock. Most were never grand, but they tend at least to hold their shape in the landscape. This one at Kildaree has not fared so well. Subsequent agricultural activity has taken its toll, and field walls have been driven straight through the monument at its southern and western sides, slicing across the original circuit without ceremony. What those walls replaced in terms of earthwork, or how long ago the boundary-makers worked their way through the site, is not recorded.