The ground is level, the bones are gone, and the earthwork that once enclosed and defined this space was cleared away long before anyone thought to preserve it.

A rath is a circular earthen enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period, built as a farmstead or place of local significance. At Killahane, the rath was already being described in the past tense by the 1840s, when recorders working on the Ordnance Survey Name Books noted that the fort had formerly served as a burial ground. The same account observed that when the rath was levelled, a great deal of human bones had been found. The phrasing is plain and practical, the kind of note made by someone documenting what local people remembered rather than what they could still observe. No further detail survives about who was buried there, when, or under what circumstances. The bones themselves are long dispersed.