The reality is rather different. The site, along with a second recorded sheepfold in the neighbouring townland, now lies somewhere beneath a forestry plantation, swallowed by the kind of commercial afforestation that has obscured countless older features across the Irish countryside.

Before the trees went in, a researcher named Henry visited the area and recorded, in 1957, the rubble foundations of several round enclosures, tentatively identified as sheepfolds, along with the traces of old field boundaries nearby. Round enclosures of this kind are not uncommon on the upland fringes of the Iveragh Peninsula, where generations of farmers and herders shaped the ground in ways that the landscape still faintly remembers, even when the features themselves have been buried or disturbed. Whether these particular enclosures were purely functional sheepfolds or something older is unclear; the cautious phrasing of "possibly sheepfolds" leaves the question open. The OS designation and the earlier fieldwork do not quite agree, and the site now sits in that uncertain space between what was mapped, what was seen, and what can no longer be found.