The ringfort at Meenahony was levelled that July, before the Office of Public Works even had a chance to visit and document it on the ground. What survives now is largely cartographic memory.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, are roughly circular enclosures defined by earthen banks and ditches, built primarily during the early medieval period in Ireland and used as farmsteads or defended homesteads. The Meenahony example was a modest but legible one: around 36 metres in diameter, its upslope edge defined by a fosse (a ditch dug into the hillside) and its lower edge by a natural or constructed scarp. It sat in rough grazing land, looking out over the Shournagh River valley. Ordnance Survey maps from both 1842 and 1939 record it clearly, marked with the hachured lines cartographers used to indicate a circular earthwork enclosure, meaning that for at least 140 years it was a recognisable feature of the landscape. Drainage work had already begun to damage it before the final levelling took place.

The site is a fairly stark example of how quickly agricultural improvement can erase features that survived for over a millennium. The 1983 levelling came just before a scheduled inspection, which lends the whole episode a particular quality of bad timing. Nothing remains to visit.