What makes this particular site quietly melancholy is that it no longer exists in any meaningful form. By the time researchers were cataloguing the archaeological landscape of south Kerry, the site had already been erased.

The clearance came about through land improvement operations, the kind of agricultural tidying-up that reshaped much of rural Ireland across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when older, irregular features of the landscape were levelled, drained, or broken up to make way for more productive farmland. The second edition of the Ordnance Survey maps, produced in the late nineteenth century, had recorded the feature but labelled it as a sheepfold rather than a prehistoric or early historic structure, which suggests its true nature was either unrecognised at the time or simply considered unremarkable. By the time A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan compiled their archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press in 1996, the site had been cleared and was gone.