That in itself is not unusual; countless such sites across Ireland have been lost to agriculture and development over the centuries. What lingers here is the name. In Irish the place was called Lios na Buarthaí, meaning the ringfort of the spancel, a spancel being a short rope or hobble used to tether the legs of cattle or restrain them during milking. That a farming implement should be preserved in the place-name of a vanished fort, on ground now given over to a barn, is the kind of quiet irony the Irish landscape occasionally offers.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, was a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, typically used as a farmstead or settlement during the early medieval period. The site at Finuge was recorded on the Ordnance Survey maps of 1841 to 1842 as a circular enclosure, and it appears again on a later edition, though by that point the north-western through to south-western arc of the enclosure was no longer marked, suggesting the earthworks were already degrading or partially removed. At some point after that the site was levelled entirely, and whatever remained of the banks and their interior was cleared to make way for agricultural buildings. The name Lisnaboorhee is the anglicised form that survived the erasure of the physical structure.