It did not vanish on the ground, but it ceased to be recorded, which in its own way is a kind of erasure. The structure still sits on the western slope of a low, narrow ridge above the eastern bank of the Carrowcor River, modest in scale but legible to anyone who knows what to look for.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of enclosed settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They were domestic in origin, the fortified farmsteads of farmers and minor lords, defined by one or more circular earthen banks. This particular example measures eighteen metres in diameter, a relatively small specimen, with a low bank of earth and stone enclosing a slightly raised interior that slopes gently down from west to east. Beyond that inner bank lies a fosse, a defensive ditch roughly one and a half to two and a half metres wide, and beyond that again a second, external bank. Both banks appear to have been faced with stone, suggesting a degree of care in their original construction that the current low profile, just a few centimetres of internal and external height, does not immediately convey. In the northeast quadrant of the interior, there is a small hollow, now obscured by overgrowth, whose purpose is not recorded. A modern field fence cuts across the northern edge of the outer bank, the kind of incremental agricultural adjustment that, repeated across the landscape over generations, explains why so many such features shrink to near-invisibility.