It is gone now, levelled in 1985, and the pasture that covers the site gives no obvious sign that anything was ever there. What makes this place quietly interesting is precisely that erasure, and the paper trail it left behind.

The site was recorded as a ringfort, the type of roughly circular enclosure, defined by an earthen or stone bank and sometimes a ditch, that was the standard farmstead of early medieval Ireland. Writing in 1934, a researcher named Bowman noted it as single-ramparted, with a diameter of around 23 yards, and situated on a hilltop in land then belonging to a D. Murphy. By the time local memory was gathered for the Cork archaeological inventory, the picture had become more specific and more final: the fort had been very stony in character, with a visible ring around it, and in 1985 it was levelled off. The phrase is blunt, and the act it describes was not unusual in twentieth-century Ireland, when land improvement schemes and changing agricultural practices removed a significant number of such monuments from the landscape. What survives here is the record, the coordinates on a ridge, and the knowledge of what was once on the hill.