When surveyors went to look for it, they could not find it. That quiet failure of identification is, in its own way, the most interesting thing about the place.

The second edition of the Ordnance Survey maps, produced in Ireland during the late nineteenth century, marked this location as a sheepfold, a simple enclosure used to pen sheep, typically built from drystone walling. Whether the structure on the ground was ever more than that, or whether the hut site classification reflects something older beneath or beside the fold, is unclear. What is clear is that by the time the archaeological survey of South Kerry was compiled by A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan and published by Cork University Press in 1996, the site had been swallowed by forestry planting and could not be relocated. The afforestation of upland Kerry, much of it carried out during the latter half of the twentieth century, has obscured a considerable number of features that the older maps still faithfully record, preserving their outlines in ink long after the ground itself has been altered beyond easy recognition.