In reality, nobody has been able to find it. The land has since been taken over by dense plantation forestry, and whatever earthwork or stony ring the original surveyors recorded has vanished beneath the canopy and the accumulated debris of planted conifers.

Circular enclosures of this kind are common throughout Kerry and the wider Iveragh Peninsula. They range from simple ringforts, which served as defended farmsteads in the early medieval period, to earlier prehistoric enclosures whose original purpose is less certain. The first edition OS maps, surveyed across Ireland in the nineteenth century, captured many such features at a moment before forestry, drainage schemes, and agricultural improvement erased them from the visible landscape. The surveyors were working from what they could see on the ground, which means the enclosure at Cois Chomarach was real enough at some point to be worth marking down. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan included it in their 1996 archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press, but even by then the site could not be located on the ground.