In the 1940s, a ring of stones was recorded on land belonging to a man named Edward Tuohy. The observer described something that looked like a stone circle, roughly fifteen stones of varying sizes arranged in a ring about thirty-five feet across. The problem is that it almost certainly was not a stone circle at all, and today there is nothing visible on the ground to examine.

The confusion is understandable but instructive. A rath, also known as a ringfort, is a circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, built throughout Ireland during the early medieval period and used primarily as a farmstead. Many raths contain internal features, including smaller stone settings, souterrains (underground passages), and subsidiary enclosures. When a mid-twentieth century recorder encountered what appeared to be a ring of standing stones sitting inside a pre-existing rath on Tuohy's land, the instinct was to classify it as a stone circle, a prehistoric monument type more typically found in open landscape rather than embedded within an earthwork. Later analysis suggests those stones were more likely the remains of an internal stone enclosure, a structural feature belonging to the rath itself rather than an independent monument from a different era entirely. Whatever they were, they are no longer visible, leaving a site that is now essentially a question mark attached to a field.