Not demolished, not quarried away, but simply absorbed, buried under field-clearance rubble and dense overgrowth until the monument became invisible to the naked eye. That a structure of this scale could vanish into a working agricultural landscape is, in itself, a quietly remarkable thing.

The cashel, as this type of site is known, is a ringfort defined by a drystone wall rather than an earthen bank. Circular in plan, it measures roughly 40 metres in external diameter, with a wall some 2.3 metres wide. When McCaffrey catalogued it in 1952, recording it as entry number 117 in his survey, the wall still stood to an internal height of about 0.9 metres, with an external face rising to around 1.2 metres, though even then it was obscured by bushes. Associated with the cashel is a souterrain, a type of underground stone-lined passage or chamber that was commonly built in early medieval Ireland for storage or refuge, suggesting the site was once a functioning settlement of some substance. By the time of a later inspection, neither the wall nor any surface trace of the monument could be identified at all. What had been a legible piece of early medieval landscape had been consumed by the very process of farming the land around it.