The first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map records a circular enclosure roughly forty metres in diameter sitting on a small hillock in grassland, with Lough Corrib visible to the west. Visit the spot today, however, and there is nothing to see. No earthen bank, no ditch, no depression in the turf. The place has been absorbed back into the ordinary landscape of the fields.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths or lios depending on their construction, were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries. A circular bank and ditch would have protected a family's dwelling and livestock, and thousands of them survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation. The one at Curraghmore has not survived at all, at least not above ground. What makes it notable, in a quiet way, is precisely that gap between the cartographic record and the physical reality. When the Ordnance Survey teams moved through Connacht in the nineteenth century, they mapped an enclosure substantial enough to record. Sometime between that survey and the present, the feature was levelled, most likely through agricultural improvement, the gradual enemy of so many such sites.

The hillock itself remains, and the westward outlook over Lough Corrib presumably has not changed. That view, and the map, are really all that is left of this particular place.