The first Ordnance Survey of Ireland, carried out in the 1830s, marked this spot as a small circular enclosure and labelled it simply 'Fort'. By the time surveyors returned to revise the six-inch map in 1883, that confident label had softened into something more equivocal: 'Site of'. The rath itself, a ringfort of the kind once scattered across the Irish countryside in their thousands, enclosures typically formed by an earthen bank and ditch used as farmsteads from the early medieval period onward, had apparently faded so completely that even its outline could no longer be reliably traced.

What the two maps together preserve is a small record of gradual erasure. Between the first survey and the revision, roughly half a century of agricultural use had worn the earthworks down to the point where they no longer registered clearly enough to be drawn. Today, nothing is visible at ground level at all. The low hillock in pasture remains, but the feature it once supported has effectively rejoined the landscape, leaving only its cartographic afterimage behind.