A rath, as these early medieval circular enclosures are known, was typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches enclosing a farmstead, and hundreds of them survive across Ireland as low but readable humps in the soil. This one does not. No bank, no ditch, no slight rise in the ground betrays where it once stood.

The site appears on the Ordnance Survey maps produced between 1841 and 1842, carefully noted by the surveyors who recorded the Irish landscape in remarkable detail during that period. By the time a later edition of the same maps was produced, it had already been omitted, suggesting that whatever remained visible to the earlier cartographers had, within a relatively short span, been ploughed flat, absorbed into field systems, or simply worn away. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, records the enclosure's position to the east of another nearby site, but confirms that no surface trace survives. The 1841 map entry is, at this point, the closest thing the rath has to a monument.