No bank, no ditch, no shadow in the turf remains. What survives is only the record of the thing, a roughly circular enclosure about twenty-five metres across, caught once on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map before the ground absorbed it completely.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when they were earthen enclosures, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular bank and ditch surrounding a farmstead or dwelling. Thousands were built across the country, and thousands have since been levelled by agriculture, drainage, or simple time. The Kilcloghans example was modest in scale, and whatever once defined its circumference, whether raised earth or a low field boundary, has left nothing for the eye to catch. Its presence is now entirely a cartographic fact, preserved because a surveyor passed through in the nineteenth century and noted the shape of it.