The site at Caher is the kind of place that exists more clearly on old maps than it does on the ground. The 1936 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows it as a hachured circular enclosure, roughly eighteen metres in diameter, the cartographer's convention for marking a raised or embanked ring in the landscape. Those hachures, small radiating lines drawn to suggest a slope or earthwork, were once the standard way of recording such features before aerial photography made them easier to see from above.

Enclosures of this kind are often referred to locally as forts, a term that has stuck in Irish rural usage across many centuries, though the word covers a wide range of structures. Many were ringforts, farmsteads enclosed by an earthen bank and ditch, used throughout the early medieval period roughly from the fifth to the twelfth century. Whether this particular example fits that category is now difficult to determine. According to local information gathered before the site was fully levelled, a portion of the original structure survives to the west of a new forest road, buried under the material excavated from a recently cut ditch. The forestry work that opened up the hillside also, in effect, buried what it did not destroy.

The site is within forestry and is not straightforwardly accessible, and given that what remains is concealed beneath a spoil bank rather than visible on the surface, there is little to see without excavation. Its interest now lies less in what can be visited than in what was recorded before it was lost, and in the familiar pattern by which development and landscape change quietly erase features that survived for more than a thousand years.