A circular enclosure, the kind of earthwork that might once have enclosed a farmstead, a burial ground, or something older still, was recorded by cartographers working on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1841 to 1842. By the time the next comparable survey was completed, between 1914 and 1915, it had already vanished from the landscape. Today, no surface trace survives.

Circular enclosures of this kind are scattered across Ireland, many of them ringforts, which are the remains of enclosed farmsteads used from the early medieval period onward, defined by earthen banks or stone walls. Their disappearance from the land is not unusual; agricultural improvement, land clearance, and decades of ploughing have erased countless examples across the country. What makes the Farrandeen site quietly notable is the precision of its disappearance. The gap between its appearance on the 1841 to 1842 map and its absence from the 1914 to 1915 edition gives a rough window of about seventy years during which whatever remained of the earthwork was levelled or absorbed into the surrounding farmland. C. Toal documented the site in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, noting its earlier cartographic presence and the complete absence of any physical remains.