Whether it ever stood there at all is now impossible to confirm, because there is no longer any visible trace of it at ground level.

The site entered the official record in the early 1990s, when it was included in the Sites and Monuments Record on the basis of information from a local source. It appeared again in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1997. The suspicion is that the structure, if it existed, was destroyed during the construction of the airport. That is a notably compressed kind of erasure: a monument potentially thousands of years old, absorbed into an infrastructure project within living memory, leaving nothing but a grid reference and a cautious entry in a government database.

There is nothing to see at Kilgarriff now, at least not above ground. The coordinates place the site within the airport grounds, which makes any kind of visit impractical. What remains is the record itself, a marker of something that may have been lost before anyone thought to look closely enough.