The earthwork is no longer legible at ground level in any obvious way, yet the outline of a circular enclosure, roughly thirty-one yards across, persists in the soil itself, revealed in aerial photographs as a cropmark, a phenomenon where differences in plant growth or soil colour betray buried or disturbed archaeology to a camera looking down from above. A light-coloured arc of soil traces the western and northern sides of what was once a bank, while to the south, a field boundary appears to have been built directly on top of the surviving remains, which still carry an internal height of around 1.4 metres and an external height of 1.6 metres. A roadway runs along the southern edge, skirting the old bank as though the landscape has quietly arranged itself around something it half-remembers.

Ringforts, sometimes called 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. Most date from roughly the sixth to the tenth century and served as farmsteads for individual families or small communities. The site at Lackendarragh may be a levelled example of the single-ramparted variety, a form with one enclosing bank, and it appears in a 1934 record compiled by Bowman, who noted it as lying on the land of a Denis O'Connell. That reference anchors the site to a specific moment of observation, even as the earthwork itself was already in decline. The incorporation of the bank into a field boundary and the routing of a road along its edge are typical of how such monuments slowly dissolve into the working landscape over generations, not through any single act of destruction but through accumulated practical decisions.