The ringfort at Mundellihy in County Limerick sits on low-lying level pasture and survives today as little more than an arc of scarped earth, most of its original earthwork bank long since flattened. Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more circular earthen banks and ditches. This one once described a roughly circular area of about 26 metres in diameter, and was still legible enough to be mapped as an embanked enclosure on the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet of 1924. A century later, that legibility has considerably faded.

The scarp that remains, standing to around 1.6 metres at its best, runs from the south-south-west around to the north-north-east, and is most sharply defined on its south-western to western side where the ground drops away towards a nearby stream. Elsewhere the bank has been further altered by a drain, roughly a metre deep, cut along its base and feeding into the same stream. Then there is the matter of 1953, when, according to the landowner at the time of the site survey compiled by Denis Power, rubble from the demolition of an old thatched house was dumped across the interior. That rubble lies somewhere beneath the present pasture surface, invisible but recorded. A modern house now stands immediately to the west, on the footprint of the earlier thatched dwelling.

The interior of the enclosure is level and grassed over, though at the time of survey it was being put to thoroughly practical use: silage bales were stacked along the eastern edge, and a compost heap occupied the north-eastern quadrant. There is no formal access or signage, and the site sits within working farmland, so any visit would require the courtesy of asking permission from the landowner. The south-western arc of the scarp, where the earthwork meets the stream bank, gives the clearest sense of the original topography. Stand there and the drop is still sharp enough to suggest why someone, more than a thousand years ago, chose this particular piece of ground to build a home and draw a boundary around it.