Most were cleared in the 1830s by a local landowner, and what survives today has been quietly absorbed into a field boundary, easy to walk past without recognising for what it is. The loss is all the more striking given the company this monument keeps: the wider Lough Gur landscape holds one of the densest concentrations of prehistoric remains in Ireland, and this circle sat at the middle of it, surrounded on almost every side by other monuments whose own histories are only partially understood.

When the antiquarians Fitzgerald and McGregor recorded the site in 1826, they noted a circle fifty yards in diameter with seventy-two smaller stones still standing. By 1840, when Ordnance Survey officers were compiling their detailed letters on the area, the number had already fallen to around sixty, with gaps opening up between groups of stones that still reached about three feet in height. Within a few more decades the damage was done. Writing in 1895, Lynch recorded that the circle had been destroyed by a Mr. Edward Croker of Grange during the 1830s, leaving only six pillar stones. The orthostats, a term for the large upright slabs used to define such monuments, had been removed, presumably for use elsewhere on the land. By the time the revised twenty-five inch Ordnance Survey map was produced, just four stones remained upstanding on the western side. The first edition six-inch map, though it depicts the site, has the location incorrectly marked, an additional frustration for anyone trying to trace the monument's original extent.

The surviving stones are now incorporated into the western field boundary, which follows the line of a former roadway that had already intersected the circle's western arc when the first Ordnance Survey maps were made. The site sits about 370 metres west of Lough Gur, in open grassland. Immediately to the south lies a large embanked stone circle, the so-called chief circle referenced in the nineteenth-century accounts, and to the north-north-east is a further stone circle. Other nearby features include a trackway known as Cladh na Leac to the east, a possible portal tomb to the south-south-west, and a trapezoidal stone setting to the west that may represent the remains of a court tomb, a type of Neolithic communal burial structure. Visiting with a good map and the national monuments record open on a phone is advisable; the misplotted Ordnance Survey location means the boundary stones can take a moment to locate, and without knowing what to look for, the remains read simply as old field stones.