The circular earthwork once known as Glanrakeon Fort, or in Irish Gleann Ráthe Cuinn, meaning the glen of the ringfort of Conn, was ploughed out some years ago, and no surface trace survives today. A ringfort, to use the general term, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more banks and ditches, typically dating from the early medieval period in Ireland and used as a farmstead or place of settlement. This particular one left barely a mark on the landscape, yet its Irish name preserves a very specific piece of social memory: a personal name, Conn, attached to the rath itself, suggesting the enclosure was once associated closely enough with an individual that local placename tradition held onto him long after the earthwork began to fade.

The fort was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1842 and 1897, straddling the boundary between Sheet 14 and Sheet 20, which places it at an inconvenient cartographic seam. The fact that it appeared on both those surveys means it was still visible, at least as a landscape feature, into the late nineteenth century. It was only in more recent decades that ploughing finally erased what remained. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995 by Brandon in association with FÁS, catalogued the site as entry number 680, which is where much of what is known about it was formally gathered together.

There is nothing to see at Garrynaneaskagh now, at least not above ground. What remains is the placename, the map record, and the Irish etymology carrying a single personal name across several centuries of agricultural change.