The site sat on a steep north-facing slope in what is now pasture, and for well over a century it was legible on the landscape, appearing as a clearly defined circular enclosure on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps from both 1842 and 1902. By around 1982, it had been levelled, most likely during agricultural improvement works, leaving no surface trace whatsoever. What survives is the outline of an absence.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches. They served as farmsteads rather than military fortifications, and thousands of them once dotted the Irish countryside. The Aghafore example carried an additional curiosity: a local tradition of a souterrain within the enclosure. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, often associated with ringforts, and thought to have been used for food storage or as a place of refuge. Whether any physical evidence of that passage survived the levelling of the site is not recorded. The tradition itself, passed down rather than excavated, is now perhaps the most tangible thing remaining.

There is nothing to see at Aghafore today, and that is precisely what makes the site worth knowing about. Its story is a quiet illustration of how quickly a feature that endured for over a thousand years can be erased in a single season of machinery, and how a dot on a nineteenth-century map can outlast the earthwork it was drawn to represent.