No walls, no foundations, no scatter of stone. The cartographers recorded not a structure but the memory of one, a ghost rendered in ink at a moment when even that memory was already fading.

The dotted circle convention used in nineteenth-century OS mapping was a way of acknowledging that something had once stood in a place, even when the surveyors could find no physical trace worth depicting as solid lines. That the mapmakers bothered to note it at all suggests the location carried some local significance, possibly connected to the adjacent graveyard, which in Irish rural contexts often preserves the outline of an earlier ecclesiastical or domestic settlement long after the buildings themselves have vanished. What the structure was, who built it, and when it disappeared are questions the map raises without answering. Today, nothing visible remains above ground.