In the pastureland of Ballycraheen, beside a small watercourse called Fiddler's Brook, there was once a rath, a type of circular earthen enclosure that served as a farmstead or defended settlement during early medieval Ireland. It sat on a natural hillock to the west of the brook, which flows southward to meet the Shournagh River, and for well over a century it appeared faithfully on Ordnance Survey maps as a hachured circle of roughly forty metres in diameter. On the ground today, there is nothing to see at all.

The OS six-inch maps of 1842, 1904, and 1937 all record the enclosure, meaning it survived at least into the mid-twentieth century largely intact. At some point after that, it was cleared. According to the landowner, the process happened gradually, in stages, with the work finalised around 1976. Unusually, it was not only the earthwork itself that was removed but also the hillock beneath it, which was lowered as part of the same operation. That combination of deliberate levelling and topographic alteration means the site has been erased rather than simply neglected. There may, however, be something still present underground. A possible souterrain, a type of stone-lined underground passage associated with early medieval ringforts and used variously for storage or refuge, has been recorded in the interior of the former enclosure. Whether that survives beneath the altered ground is unknown.