A low platform roughly one and a half metres high, covered over the years by trees and bushes, was levelled that year, leaving behind only an uneven surface of hillocks and shallow gullies that form no discernible pattern. It is the kind of erasure that happens quietly, in fields, away from any official record of the moment.

The site was a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, which was a type of enclosed farmstead typically built between the early medieval period and around the twelfth century. These enclosures, usually circular and defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, and tens of thousands once existed across the country. The Ballygoghlan example was recorded on the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1841 as an embanked circular enclosure roughly twenty-three metres in diameter. By the time the 1923 OS revision was made, the enclosing bank between the western and north-eastern sides had already disappeared from the mapped record, suggesting that deterioration or partial clearance had begun well before the final levelling. Denis Power compiled the site record, uploaded in August 2011, drawing on both the cartographic evidence and local information about its final form.

Today there is little to see. The site lies in pasture, and the ground disturbance left after 1987 does not resolve itself into anything a visitor could easily interpret. The hillocks and gullies are there if you look, but they read more like ordinary variations in old farmland than the outline of a former enclosure. If the location interests you as part of a broader exploration of the Limerick landscape and its lost earthworks, the 1841 OS map, accessible through the Historic OS Maps viewer, gives the clearest impression of what once stood here, its circular form still distinct on paper long after it ceased to exist on the ground.