What makes this particular example quietly melancholy is how thoroughly it has been erased, and how precisely that erasure can be dated. According to local information, the earthworks were levelled around 1982, leaving behind a site that now announces itself only in the most subtle topographical whispers.

The fort had a recorded life on maps stretching back to the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland. The 1842 six-inch map depicted it as a circular area with hachures, the cartographic shorthand for slopes and raised ground, marked both internally and externally, suggesting a reasonably well-defined enclosure at that point. Later editions, from 1905 and 1937, continued to show it as a hachured circular enclosure of approximately forty metres in diameter. That consistency across nearly a century of mapping implies the earthworks survived the intervening decades without serious disturbance, only to be lost sometime in the early 1980s. A ground survey conducted after the levelling found a circular area of forty-one metres in diameter, where a low rise of around ten centimetres still traces the line of the old bank from the north-west around to the north-east, and again from the south-east down to the south-south-west. A steep scarp survives along the north-east to south-east arc, hinting at where the enclosure once had its most pronounced edge.

The site sits atop a hill, which was entirely typical for raths, whose elevated positions gave early medieval farming families both a commanding view and a degree of natural defensibility. What a visitor would find today is essentially a grassy hillside where the ground, if observed carefully and in the right light, still holds the faint memory of something that stood for perhaps a thousand years before being erased in a single season.