By the time anyone thought to write it down properly, much of the stonework had already been carted away, and today the site is so overgrown as to be entirely inaccessible.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows the arrangement in some detail: a small rectangular structure, around ten metres long, set against the north-east side of a square enclosure, all of it sitting within a larger rectilinear enclosure roughly forty metres by twenty, with a laneway running north from its corner. A cahir, in Irish place-name usage, typically refers to a stone fort or enclosure, often of early medieval origin, and this site carries that word in its townland name, Caheraveelane. Writing in 1934, a researcher named Bowman recorded the remains of what he described as a rectangular dry-stone fort measuring roughly twenty-three yards by ten, with walls still standing about ten feet high in places, along with the foundations of several other enclosures on the same hilltop, sitting in the middle of bog on land belonging to a P. Sullivan. Even then, Bowman noted, most of the stone had been taken by cottage contractors. He also mentioned that the remains of a road leading to the site were still visible at that time. Local tradition, as Bowman collected it, held that a Quaker named Meelaun had used the place as a seasonal residence during the hunting and fowling season. A separate account, from a writer named Cremen in 1909, adds another layer: he had been told that herdsmen regularly sheltered in the old stone huts of the cahir, and that the spot had acquired the informal name "The Kerryman's bed". Cremen himself, however, could find no trace of the site at all.