The circular enclosure, drawn with the same matter-of-fact precision as every other feature on that nineteenth-century survey, sat close to a coastal cliff edge, the kind of exposed, windward position that makes its eventual disappearance feel almost inevitable. Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were typically earthen or stone enclosures built during the early medieval period, used as farmsteads and places of domestic settlement. This one has left nothing visible on the surface.

In its place, running north to south across the ground where the enclosure once stood, is a series of cultivation ridges, the parallel raised beds known colloquially as lazy beds, which were used for growing crops, most commonly potatoes, from at least the seventeenth century onwards and intensively during the centuries leading up to the Famine. The repeated working of that ground would have been more than enough to erase a low earthen bank. What survives is the memory of something else entirely: local tradition holds that a souterrain lies somewhere in the vicinity. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, often associated with early medieval settlement sites, used for storage or as a place of refuge. Whether it survives intact beneath the ridge-ploughed soil, and whether it has any connection to the lost enclosure above it, remains unverified.