The site was recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which captured much of rural Ireland's archaeology in the 1830s before agricultural improvement, drainage, and building had the chance to erase it. That original survey noted a roughly circular enclosure approximately thirty metres in diameter, a size consistent with the countless ringforts scattered across the Irish countryside. Ringforts, also known as raths, were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, their circular banks and ditches defining a domestic space for a family and their livestock.

Today, almost nothing of the Cloonee enclosure remains visible above ground. A degraded scarp, the worn remnant of what was once likely a more pronounced earthen bank, curves from the west around to the north, and that is the full extent of what survives. The rest of the site has been absorbed into the fabric of two private gardens, the kind of quiet erasure that happened incrementally across Ireland as land was cleared, levelled, and put to use. The first edition OS map, then, is not merely a historical curiosity here; it is the primary evidence that anything existed at all.