It appears on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey maps, marked as a sheepfold, but the classification was evidently uncertain even then; the site is recorded as a hut site, suggesting something older and more ambiguous beneath that tidy pastoral label. When archaeologists went to look for it, the plantation had swallowed it entirely, and the site could not be located.

That gap between what a map insists is there and what the ground will actually yield is a recurring feature of Irish archaeological survey work. The Iveragh Peninsula, a rugged finger of land in south Kerry, is extraordinarily dense with prehistoric and early medieval remains, and the process of cataloguing them has frequently run up against forestry cover, overgrowth, and the stubborn unreliability of nineteenth-century cartographic interpretation. A sheepfold and a hut site are not the same thing; one is a working enclosure for livestock, the other a probable remnant of human habitation, and the confusion between them points to how much was being read, and misread, from surface traces alone. The site's entry draws on the archaeological survey of the peninsula compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, published by Cork University Press in 1996.

What remains, in the absence of the site itself, is essentially a cartographic ghost: a feature marked, named, categorised, and then lost to the trees.