Quarrying activity in the area over recent decades has removed every trace of it, leaving the site as one of those places that exists now only in old measurements and older maps.

When the antiquarian John Windele visited in 1843, he recorded a long, ridge-like mound running to eighty-one feet in length and standing twelve feet high, already partly collapsed along the riverward side. He was not the first to take note of it. A survey of 1775, drawn up by Bernard Scalé for the estate of the Duke of Devonshire, marks the feature as a semicircular earthwork on the northern edge of the Bandon River and labels it 'Danes Fort', a name applied in this period to ancient monuments of uncertain origin across Ireland, often as a catch-all for anything imposing and unexplained. Whether it was a burial mound, a ringwork, or something else entirely was never resolved, and O'Mahony's 1909 account, drawing on Windele's earlier visit, adds little further clarity. What the three sources together preserve is at least a shape and a scale: something ridge-like, something considerable, something that stood close to the water and was already losing its river-facing edge when Windele paced it out. The quarrying that followed in the twentieth century finished what erosion had begun, and the ground west of the church now holds no surface trace of any monument.