Not dramatically lost to flood or fire, but simply absorbed back into the earth, leaving no trace that the casual eye could detect. What is known is this: within the southern half of a rath, the circular earthwork enclosure that served as a farmstead boundary throughout much of early medieval Ireland, there once sat what appeared to be a circular stony structure, most likely the foundation of a house.

The detail is slender but suggestive. A report filed in 1976 recorded the presence of a circular stony enclosure within the interior of the rath, and identified it as a probable house site. A rath, sometimes called a ringfort, was the standard unit of rural settlement in early Christian Ireland, typically enclosing a family's dwelling and outbuildings within a raised bank and ditch. Finding a house foundation inside one is not unusual in principle; what is unusual here is how completely this particular example has since disappeared. By the time the record was compiled, it was no longer visible at ground level. Whether it was disturbed by agricultural activity, robbed for stone, or simply levelled by decades of ploughing is not recorded.

What remains is the rath itself, catalogued separately, and this small annotation pointing to something that once stood inside it. The house has no confirmed date, no named occupant, and no surviving structure. It exists now only as a note in a file, a circular arrangement of stones that someone in 1976 thought significant enough to record before it disappeared entirely.