Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically built during the early medieval period, their earthen banks encircling a family's home and livestock. This one is gone in any meaningful physical sense, yet its outline was clear enough in 1842 for the Ordnance Survey to capture it on their six-inch map as a hachured circle, complete with a lime kiln sitting on its southern bank. A lime kiln was a small stone furnace used to burn limestone into quicklime, widely employed in agriculture to improve soil. The pairing of fort and kiln in the same field suggests the site had shifted from an archaeological curiosity to a working agricultural feature long before anyone thought to record it formally.

By the time researchers came to document the site in the 1930s, it had already been levelled. Broker, writing in 1937, noted that the fort sat in a place called Kiln Field on Denis McSweeney's land, and suggested it had been flattened, possibly by a Dr O'Sullivan, somewhere around 1860. Bowman, recording the site three years earlier in 1934, listed it alongside two neighbouring forts, indicating that this part of north Cork once had a cluster of three such enclosures in relatively close proximity on MacSweeney's land. That broader grouping makes the loss of this particular example more pointed; what survives at the neighbouring sites presumably makes legible what has been lost here. The lime kiln itself has also vanished, leaving no surface trace.