Not destroyed in any dramatic sense, but absorbed. By the time anyone went looking for it in 1987, the field had been reclaimed for tillage and nothing remained visible at ground level.

The mound appears on the 1946 to 1947 revision of the OS six-inch map, positioned on a fairly steep north-east-facing slope on the western side of a small river valley. Its placement is specific enough to be telling: it sat roughly seven metres north-west of a spring, in terrain that offered fair to good views down into the valley, though rising ground cut off the sightlines to the west and south-west. Mounds of this kind in the Irish landscape can represent a range of things, from burial monuments of the Bronze Age to later medieval earthworks, and their association with springs is not uncommon. Water sources held persistent significance across many periods, and the proximity here may be coincidental or may point to something older and more deliberate. Without excavation, there is no way to say which.

What makes this particular site quietly arresting is not what it was, but what happened to it. The landscape feature that warranted cartographic recognition in the mid-twentieth century had been entirely erased within a few decades, leaving the map entry as the only reliable evidence it was ever there.