It is the kind of administrative accident that says something about how Ireland was mapped and measured long after these earthworks ceased to function, the modern bureaucratic line paying no heed to the ancient one beneath it.

A rath, as ringforts are commonly known, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, used in early medieval Ireland primarily as a farmstead or defended dwelling. This particular example was already legible enough to be recorded on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1841 to 1842, where the full circuit of the enclosure appears. By the time a later edition was produced, only the northern through eastern to southern arc of the bank was marked, suggesting either deterioration or simply a more selective survey. Aerial photographs taken by the Geological Survey of Ireland in 1974 confirmed that something was still visible from above, even if the ground itself told a less clear story. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, noted that the area had become heavily overgrown, making it difficult to trace the rath with any confidence on the surface.

That overgrowth has likely not improved with the decades since. The enclosure sits in terrain where vegetation has gradually reclaimed what cartographers once recorded with reasonable confidence, and what remains is more a matter for aerial or geophysical investigation than for casual observation at ground level.