Today, tillage covers the ground completely, and there is nothing left to see at the surface. The site survives only as a notation on a 1935 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where it appears as a hachured circular enclosure, the standard cartographic shorthand surveyors used to indicate an earthen ring with a raised bank and interior dip.

A rath, the Irish term for this type of earthwork enclosure, was typically a single-family farmstead of the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. The encircling bank and ditch offered a degree of security for livestock and household alike, and thousands of them once dotted the Irish countryside. At Skenakilla, the record suggests the site had already been levelled by the time anyone thought to document it formally. The 1935 map caught it at, or close to, its last legible moment, the earthwork reduced enough that farming could proceed but still distinct enough for a surveyor to trace its outline.