Walk the west-facing pasture where it once stood and you would find nothing, no earthen banks, no hollow, no shadow in the grass that might betray a former enclosure. It was levelled in 1985, and whatever remained of its circular outline was absorbed into the working farmland around it.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when constructed from earthen banks and ditches, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically serving as enclosed farmsteads for a single family and their livestock. Thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation; thousands more do not. The one at Cashel Beg belongs firmly to the latter category. The date of its destruction, 1985, places it within living memory, during a period when agricultural improvement schemes and land clearance were responsible for the loss of a significant number of such sites across Ireland. The placename Cashel Beg is itself suggestive of an early ecclesiastical or defensive enclosure, cashel referring to a stone fort or enclosure in Irish, though the recorded site here was a rath rather than a stone-built structure.