That near-absence is itself the point. A ringfort that was once a clearly defined oval earthwork, roughly 33 metres across its longest axis, has been so thoroughly levelled that by 1971 only a curving cropmark betrayed it. The grass above the buried remains grew differently from the grass around it, a stripe of differential growth about four metres wide sweeping from west-southwest around through north to north-northeast, marking where a fosse once ran. A fosse is simply a ditch, the encircling feature that, combined with an internal bank, gave an early medieval ringfort its defensive character. Here, that ditch had been filled in and the bank flattened. The faint ghost of the whole structure remains just about legible on aerial photography if you know what to look for.

The fort was still recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1837, annotated plainly as a fort on the accompanying Fair Plan map and measurable as a roughly oval earthwork. By the time the revised twenty-five-inch edition was produced in 1913, it had disappeared from the cartographic record entirely. That gap between the two surveys spans the decades of the Famine and its aftermath, a period of considerable agricultural reorganisation across the Irish midlands, though exactly when or why this particular enclosure was dismantled is not documented. What is clear is that by 1971, when it was formally described as a levelled ringfort, part of it had been recently removed, suggesting the process of erasure was still ongoing into the twentieth century. Thousands of such enclosures survive across Ireland in various states of preservation; this one represents the far end of that spectrum, where survival is measured in soil chemistry and crop stress rather than earthen banks.