The first edition of the Ordnance Survey map marks a circular enclosure here, named simply 'Fort' on the Fair Plan, the working document surveyors used to record features before the final map was printed. But on the ground, nothing remains. No earthwork, no trace of a bank or ditch, no faint crop-mark suggesting something buried just below the surface.

Ringforts, known in Irish as ráth or lios depending on their construction, were the most common form of early medieval settlement in Ireland, typically consisting of a circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, enclosing a farmstead or homestead. Thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation. This one, catalogued by archaeologist J. Cuppage in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, does not. Whether it was demolished for agriculture, eroded gradually from the exposed slope, or was perhaps misidentified by the original OS surveyors is not recorded. What the survey entry preserves, in effect, is an absence, a place where something was noted and mapped and has since ceased to exist in any visible form.