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Discovered in 2011 with LOFAR, the $15$ Jy low-frequency radio transient ILTJ225347+862146 heralds a potentially prolific population of radio transients at$<100$ MHz. However, subsequent transient searches in similar parameter spaceyielded no detections. We test the hypothesis that these surveys at comparablesensitivity have missed the population due to mismatched survey parameters. Inparticular, the LOFAR survey used only $195$ kHz of bandwidth at $60$ MHz whileother survey were at higher frequencies or had wider bandwidth. Using $137$hours of all-sky images from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long WavelengthArray (OVRO-LWA), we conduct a narrowband transient search at $\sim10$ Jysensitivity with timescales from $10$ min to $1$ day and a bandwidth of $722$kHz at $60$ MHz. To model remaining survey selection effects, we introduce aflexible Bayesian approach for inferring transient rates. We do not detect anytransient and find compelling evidence that our non-detection is inconsistentwith the detection of ILT J225347+862146. Under the assumption that thetransient is astrophysical, we propose two hypotheses that may explain ournon-detection. First, the transient population associated with ILTJ225347+862146 may have a low all-sky density and display strong temporalclustering. Second, ILT J225347+862146 may be an extreme instance of thefluence distribution, of which we revise the surface density estimate at $15$Jy to $1.1\times 10^{-7}$ deg$^{-2}$ with a $95\%$ credible interval of$(3.5\times10^{-12}, 3.4\times10^{-7})$ deg$^{-2}$. Finally, we find apreviously identified object coincident with ILT J225347+862146 to be an Mdwarf at $420$ pc.

A Matched Survey for the Enigmatic Low Radio Frequency Transient ILT J225347+862146