The irony is that the ringfort the name commemorates no longer exists. Where An Liosachán once stood, there is now only a field.

According to local information recorded in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Dingle Peninsula, the fort was dismantled when its stones were removed for use by the County Council, a fate that befell many such structures across Ireland during periods of road-building and land improvement. The name An Liosachán, a diminutive form suggesting something like "the little lios" (a lios being another word for a ringfort enclosure), appears to have been shared with a second, smaller structure in the neighbouring townland of Ballintemple. That second example was apparently too modest in scale to meet the threshold for classification as a ringfort proper, which makes the destroyed Baile Na Rátha Thuaidh site the more significant of the two, and the more conspicuous loss.

What remains is essentially an absence, a place defined by what was taken from it. The townland name preserves a memory that the landscape itself no longer supports, and the doubling of the name An Liosachán across two adjacent townlands raises quiet questions about whether these were related enclosures, perhaps part of the same early settlement cluster, that have since been erased or reduced beyond recognition.