Recorded on the Ordnance Survey map of 1841 to 1842, the circular enclosure, a rath, which is the Irish term for a ringfort typically consisting of an earthen bank and ditch enclosing a farmstead, had already vanished from later map editions. Today, no surface trace survives at all. The land holds no visible bank, no hint of a ditch, nothing to suggest that a settlement once sat here.

Ringforts are among the most common early medieval monuments in Ireland, with tens of thousands once scattered across the landscape, yet a significant number have been erased by centuries of agriculture, land clearance, and development. The Kilmeany example was captured in the mid-nineteenth century survey at a moment when it was apparently still legible in the landscape, or at least in the cartographers' field notes, before disappearing from subsequent records entirely. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, catalogued it among the archaeological heritage of the region, preserving at least the documentary trace of something that the ground itself no longer reflects.