The ringfort that once stood here, a rath, which is an earthen-banked enclosure of the kind built in Early Medieval Ireland as a farmstead or place of refuge, has been so thoroughly levelled that the ground gives no indication anything was ever there. No bank, no ditch, no rise or hollow in the grass. It is an absence wearing the shape of a place.

The site does have a documented history, even if the archaeology has vanished. It was recorded as a circular enclosure on Ordnance Survey maps made in 1841 to 1842, and it was still being marked on the revised OS maps of 1914, which suggests it was at least partially visible as late as the early twentieth century. At some point after that, whatever remained was removed entirely, most likely through agricultural clearance. The most revealing evidence came not from the ground but from the air. Aerial photographs taken by the Geological Survey of Ireland in 1974 show the site as a crop mark, a faint but legible difference in the way vegetation grows over disturbed or compacted subsoil, tracing the ghost of the original enclosure. This kind of mark is often the last surviving signature of a monument that has otherwise been erased, visible only under the right combination of dry weather, low sun, and the particular crop growing in the field at the time. C. Toal documented the site in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, drawing together what the maps and aerial record could tell about a monument that could no longer speak for itself.