That designation captures something quietly significant. What the cartographers recorded was not a single fallen building but the ghost of an entire small community, some 27 unroofed rectangular structures arranged around a church and graveyard, their associated plots still legible enough to be mapped, their walls still standing enough to be counted.

The cluster dates most likely to after 1800, placing it in the turbulent social landscape of pre-Famine or Famine-era rural Ireland, when small settlements like this one were common across the west. The structures, probably house foundations, were aligned roughly east to west and wrapped around the ecclesiastical site from the west through the north to the south-east. By the time the scholar McCaffrey produced a detailed plan of the site in 1952, drawing the individual subdivisions and foundations with enough precision to publish as a figure, much of what remained had already been levelled. Aerial reconnaissance carried out in 1968 under the Cambridge University Committee for Aerial Photography confirmed the extent of the loss: only those structures to the east and south-east of the graveyard had survived even in trace form.

Those traces are, by some accounts, still visible on the ground. The site sits in relationship to the medieval church at Drumacoo, itself a separate and older feature, so what a careful eye might pick out in the grass represents the remains of a later community that gathered around an already ancient place of worship and burial, and then quietly disappeared from the landscape, leaving only the faint geometry of their foundations behind.