The earthwork is gone, levelled at some point by agriculture or time, leaving no visible trace on the ground. What remains is essentially a cartographic ghost, a circle drawn by an Ordnance Survey mapper in 1842 and now serving as the sole reliable evidence that something was ever here at all.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the site as a hachured circular enclosure, meaning the cartographer used short radiating lines to indicate an earthen bank or raised feature, roughly thirty metres in diameter. A rath, the Irish term for this type of ringfort, was typically a farmstead of the early medieval period, enclosed within one or more circular earthen banks and ditches. They were domestic rather than military in function, home to a farmer and their household, and they once numbered in the tens of thousands across Ireland. The one at Ballyfadeen More was modest in scale by any measure, but its presence on that north-east-facing slope would have been unremarkable to anyone passing in the ninth or tenth century. By the time the surveyors arrived in the 1840s it was already reduced enough to merit only a hachured outline. Now even that outline is a formality, the pasture having swallowed whatever the mapmakers saw.