Not lost to erosion or gradual decay, but levelled, its earthworks absorbed into forestry so thoroughly that no surface trace remains. It is the kind of disappearance that happens quietly, leaving only the paper record behind.

The site was already in a diminished state when Bowman noted it in 1934, describing it as a levelled single-ramparted fort of roughly nineteen yards in diameter on land belonging to a J. Cronin, sitting at the foot of a mountain. A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically circular and defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches; they are among the most common archaeological monuments in Ireland, yet each one represents a specific household, a specific place in the landscape. The earlier Ordnance Survey mapping offers a more detailed picture of what was once here. The 1842 six-inch map shows a hachured oval enclosure of approximately twenty-eight by eighteen metres, with a rectangular building along its south-east side, suggesting the remains were still legible at that point. By 1904 the depiction had shifted to a circular form, its upslope southern side defined by a bank and its lower northern edge by a scarp. By 1937, all that cartographers could record was a hachured raised area of around twenty-two metres across. Each revision of the map marks another stage in the site's slow erasure, the detail draining away across the surveys until the forestry swallowed what was left.