A cashel is a type of ringfort defined by a stone wall rather than an earthen bank, and this one, roughly fifteen metres in diameter, was clear enough to a Victorian cartographer to be marked as a solid circle on the 1894 Ordnance Survey six-inch map. Visit the site today, however, and there is nothing to see. The enclosure has effectively vanished at ground level, leaving only pasture and a long view northward over the upland plateau of Sliabh Luachra.

The reason for its disappearance is quietly telling. Local knowledge holds that the stones making up the cashel wall were lifted and redistributed onto the surrounding field boundaries, the low stone divisions that still pattern this part of Kerry. It is a common enough fate for such structures; the dressed and manageable stones of an ancient enclosure made practical material for farmers building or repairing walls. The result is a kind of dispersal, where the monument survives in fragments across the landscape rather than as a coherent form. The 1894 map then becomes an inadvertent record of the site in a relatively intact state, a last snapshot before the stones were fully absorbed into agricultural infrastructure.