Ringforts, the circular enclosed farmsteads that dot the Irish countryside in their thousands, were typically built during the early medieval period and often endure as low earthen or stone banks at the edge of fields, half-forgotten but still present. This one, on a west-facing limestone slope at Ballynamona, has effectively been erased.

The monument appeared on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840, recorded as a circular enclosure roughly twenty metres in diameter. By the time of the most recent survey notes, a short arc of stone bank remained visible on the northern side, standing just 0.4 metres high and 1.8 metres wide, with the rest of the structure largely swallowed by a dense growth of briars and scrub. That changed in December 2021. A report of concern was submitted to the National Monuments Service on 15th December of that year, and two days later Anne Carey, archaeologist with the NMS, visited the site. What she found was significant land clearance across two fields. In the first, a trench had been excavated close to the public road and trees had been stockpiled. In the second, where the monument sat at the south-western end of a ridge running north-east to south-west, the clearance was far more thorough: vegetation and sod had been stripped across much of the area, and the exposed ground had been smoothed over with the back of a mechanical bucket. No surface trace of the ringfort remained. Scattered stones in the topsoil and patches of exposed yellow-grey subsoil were all that hinted at what lay beneath.

For a visitor, there is little to find on the ground today. The site sits in rough pasture on limestone terrain, and without the earlier OS mapping and the NMS inspection record, nothing would distinguish this particular rise in the land from any other. The 1840 map reference and the inspection report compiled by Denis Power and revised by Caimin O'Brien remain the most detailed account of what was there. The story of this place is now largely documentary, which is itself a particular kind of record.