It appears in the cartographic record, marked with hachures indicating a small mound, and then it does not. That gap between two maps, separated by seventy years, is more or less all that survives of it.

The sequence of evidence is brief but telling. The Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch mapping of Ireland in the 1830s, and the 1838 edition for this area records nothing at Kilcappagh worth marking. By the time the revised twenty-five-inch Ordnance Survey edition was compiled in 1908, a small mound had appeared on the sheet, indicated by the short radiating lines cartographers use to suggest a raised feature on the ground. At some point between those two surveys, either a feature became visible enough to record, or a feature that had long existed was noticed for the first time. Either way, it no longer matters in a practical sense: no surface remains are visible today. Whatever the mound represented, whether a burial feature, a collapsed structure, or some earlier earthwork, it has since been levelled or eroded to the point of invisibility.