Ringforts, or raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and tens of thousands of them survive across the country in various states of preservation. The example at Killaready is modest in scale but unusually clear in its detail, sitting in level pasture with its earthworks still readable underfoot.

The site takes an oval form, measuring 47 metres north to south and 38 metres east to west, and is defined by a combination of features that would have originally served both practical and symbolic functions. Along its western and southern arc, an earthen bank survives with an internal height of around 0.25 metres and an external height of 0.45 metres, while the southern to west-northwest section is further defined by a scarped edge, essentially a cut or shaped slope in the ground, measuring 0.45 metres high and 2.7 metres wide. A fosse, which is a shallow external ditch, runs around the north-northeast to eastern side, measuring roughly 0.25 metres deep and 1.8 metres wide. A field boundary has been built along the base of the bank from west-northwest to north-northeast, a reminder that later agricultural activity has quietly incorporated the monument into the working landscape. The record was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011.

The interior is described as level, dry, and clear of overgrowth, which makes it easier than many comparable sites to read the overall shape and understand how the enclosure would have functioned. About ten metres to the south-southwest, a circular rise of 4.6 metres in diameter, defined by its own low scarped edge, may be an associated feature, though its precise relationship to the main enclosure is not established. Visitors approaching on foot should look for the subtle change in ground level around the perimeter rather than expecting dramatic earthworks; this is a site that rewards slow attention to topography rather than a single obvious focal point.