A circular enclosure, recorded and mapped, has been entirely swallowed by the working landscape, leaving nothing for the eye to catch at ground level. That particular kind of disappearance, a monument surviving only as a cartographic memory, is in its own way as telling as a well-preserved ruin.

The enclosure first appears on Ordnance Survey maps drawn between 1841 and 1842, where it is shown lying to the west of a rath, which is a ringfort, the type of circular earthen enclosure commonly associated with early medieval farmsteads in Ireland. By the time the revised OS edition was published in 1898, fieldbanks had already cut across the enclosure from the south to the east, suggesting that agricultural reorganisation was quietly dismantling whatever earthwork remained. A further glimpse came from aerial photographs taken by the Geological Survey of Ireland in 1977, on which a slight trace was still just visible from above. After that, silence. No surface trace survives today, and the enclosure exists now only in those successive layers of documentation, the nineteenth-century maps, the mid-twentieth-century photographs, and the record compiled by C. Toal in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995.