A circular enclosure, the kind of earthwork that in Ireland often signals early medieval settlement or an ancient farmstead boundary, appeared clearly enough on the Ordnance Survey maps produced in 1841 and 1842. By the time the surveyors came back around 1914 to 1915, it was gone from the record entirely, and today no trace of it remains on the ground.

What happened in the intervening decades is not documented, but the map evidence tells its own quiet story. At some point between those two surveys, a fieldbank was cut across the enclosure in a northwest to southeast direction, slicing through it and, over time, apparently erasing whatever earthwork had defined it. This kind of loss was not unusual during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when agricultural improvement and land reorganisation reshaped enormous areas of the Irish countryside. Enclosures of this sort, circular earthen or stone-defined boundaries sometimes associated with ringfort settlement, were among the most common archaeological features in Kerry, and among the most vulnerable to the plough and the spade. The 1841 to 1842 Ordnance Survey, carried out with considerable care and at a scale that captured many minor field monuments, preserved a record of this one just long enough to prove it had existed.