The site appears on the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a roughly circular hachured enclosure, measuring approximately 37 metres north to south and 34 metres east to west. By the time the 1921 edition was produced, the same feature was being represented as defined by a wall. Today, no visible surface trace survives at all. What the maps recorded has been swallowed entirely by the land.

The site is listed as a possible ringfort, which is the most common monument type in the Irish countryside. Ringforts were enclosed farmsteads, typically dating from the early medieval period, consisting of one or more circular earthen banks or stone walls enclosing a domestic space. Thousands survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation, but many more have been lost to agriculture, land improvement, and the slow accumulation of centuries. The Skehanagh example illustrates how thoroughly a site can disappear even when its existence has been formally mapped. The gap between the 1838 depiction and the 1921 one suggests the enclosure was being actively managed or altered during that period, though precisely what changed, and why, is no longer legible in the landscape itself.