A ringfort, the kind of circular earthen enclosure built in early medieval Ireland as a defended farmstead, once occupied this ground. Today, nothing of it remains above the surface.

The enclosure was recorded on Ordnance Survey maps made between 1841 and 1842, and again on the revised survey of 1898, which means it was still visible, or at least traceable, into the late nineteenth century. At some point after that, it was levelled, most likely through agricultural clearance, the kind of gradual attrition that removed thousands of similar sites across Ireland as land was ploughed, drained, and improved over the twentieth century. The North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995 by C. Toal, catalogued it among the region's monuments, though even by that point the physical evidence had already gone.

What lingers is the cartographic record, two moments of documentation separated by half a century, bracketing whatever process eventually erased the earthwork entirely. The site is a reminder that a significant portion of Ireland's early medieval landscape now exists only in archive boxes and old map sheets rather than in the ground itself.