By the time archaeologists came to examine it more closely, the forest had closed in, and the site could not be located at all. What the maps had called a stone circle turns out, on closer reading, to be something rather less certain: a low earthen bank enclosing a roughly circular area about eight metres across, its nature, in the careful phrasing of the record, described simply as 'uncertain'.

The mis-labelling is easy enough to understand. On a six-inch map, a hachured mound, the cartographic convention for showing a raised or banked feature through short radiating lines, can suggest the outline of a prehistoric monument without specifying what kind. Stone circles are among the most recognisable monument types in Cork, and the county has a significant concentration of them, so the instinct to name it as one was understandable, if premature. When Seán Ó Nualláin surveyed the site in research published in 1984, he noted only the low bank and declined to commit to any interpretation. The enclosure sits within a broader prehistoric landscape: roughly 70 metres to its north lies a circular enclosure of a different kind, and about 90 metres to its south are a fulacht fiadh, a type of burnt mound associated with ancient cooking or industrial activity, and a possible standing stone. The clustering of these features suggests the area was used and meaningful to the people who shaped it, even if the precise function of this particular enclosure remains opaque.

For now, the site belongs to the trees. Dense forestry has made physical inspection impossible, and the enclosure, whatever it once was, remains unverified on the ground. It occupies that particular category of Irish archaeological site: recorded, mapped, named, and then quietly lost to vegetation.