Where the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map once marked a circular univallate enclosure, meaning a ringfort defined by a single earthen bank and ditch, the ground today shows no trace whatsoever. The site sits on a gentle south-facing slope just north of the Ferta river in Cahereighterrush, on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry. Locally, it was always known simply as a fort, the ordinary word that communities across Ireland applied to the remains of these early medieval farmsteads, which were typically built between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries. That the memory of it survived in local speech longer than the monument itself is a small, quiet irony.

According to local information, the enclosure was levelled during the 1920s. The decade was a turbulent one in Ireland, and land clearance of various kinds, whether agricultural improvement, boundary reorganisation, or simply the practical work of farming disrupted land, removed many such earthworks that had endured for over a thousand years. This particular site left behind neither mound nor hollow, neither scatter of finds nor residual cropmark that a passing walker might notice. Its existence is now documented rather than visible, preserved in the record of what once stood here rather than in any physical form on the hillside above the river.