One, on the eastern side, measures roughly ten metres by four and contains several large stone slabs at its far end; the other, to the southeast, is roughly square in plan at around twelve metres across, and is so thoroughly buried under overgrowth that its character remains unclear. These features, combined with the earthwork enclosure around them, make the site at Kilteery quietly more complex than it first appears from the surrounding pasture.

A ringfort, or rath, is the most common type of early medieval settlement monument in Ireland, typically dating from roughly the sixth to the tenth century. It generally consisted of a circular or oval enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, within which a farmstead would have stood. The Kilteery example, recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the national monuments database in August 2011, is oval in plan, measuring approximately 34.5 metres north to south and 38 metres east to west. Its enclosing bank survives to an internal height of around 0.85 metres and an external height of 1.5 metres, with a fosse, meaning a surrounding ditch, running in two separate arcs: one from the north-northwest around to the northeast, and a second from the southeast around to the southwest. The ditch is modest in both width and depth at this point, roughly 1.2 metres wide and between 0.2 and 0.25 metres deep, suggesting some degree of silting or erosion over the centuries.

The site sits on an east-facing slope in undulating pasture, and this gradient is reflected inside the enclosure itself: the western half of the interior is relatively level, while the eastern half slopes downward following the natural lie of the land. Much of the bank and a good portion of the interior are heavily overgrown with gorse, which makes close inspection difficult and means the southeastern depression in particular is almost entirely concealed. Anyone visiting should expect to read the earthworks more by feel and outline than by clear visual inspection, and should be prepared for dense scrub. The large slabs visible at the eastern end of the first depression are the most legible detail on the ground, and suggest, without confirming, some form of structural remains beneath the surface.