No earthwork, no ridge in the soil, no ring of disturbed ground marks the spot today. What remains is a cartographic ghost, recorded and then slowly erased.

The feature appears on the 1839 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a tiny circular outline roughly ten metres in diameter. The Ordnance Survey Name Book for Kiltegan parish, compiled between 1838 and 1840, notes simply "one small rath in Townland". A rath, sometimes called a ringfort, is a roughly circular enclosure typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, built during the early medieval period in Ireland as a farmstead or place of habitation. At ten metres across, this one would have been exceptionally small, even by the standards of a monument class that already spans an enormous range of sizes and functions. Whether it was a modest farmstead enclosure, a stock pen, or something less easily categorised is impossible now to say. What is clear is that by the time anyone thought to look closely at ground level, it had already gone.