A ringfort is an enclosed circular settlement, typically of early medieval date, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and thousands survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation. This one does not survive at all. What remains is a mark on paper: a roughly circular hachured area, approximately twenty metres in diameter, recorded on the 1913 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map. Where that enclosure once stood, there is now a level farmyard.

The gap between the map and the ground tells a familiar story. The 1913 survey captured the monument at a moment when it was still legible in the landscape, its outline traced by the characteristic hachure marks that cartographers used to indicate earthworks and raised ground. At some point after that, the remains were cleared. The levelling of ringforts for agricultural improvement was common throughout the twentieth century, particularly as mechanisation made it easier to remove features that had resisted earlier generations of farmers. A twenty-metre ringfort is a modest one, and its low bank would not have posed much of an obstacle to a determined effort at clearance. The farmyard that replaced it leaves no visible trace of what preceded it.