A small ringfort that once sat within a farmyard in Dromavally village on the Dingle Peninsula was never recorded on Ordnance Survey maps, and has since been destroyed entirely. What survives is a description: a circular enclosure roughly 40 feet, or 12 metres, across, defined by an earthen bank but lacking a fosse, the external ditch that typically accompanies such enclosures. Its absence from the official cartographic record means it existed largely in local memory before even that trace was erased.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically dating from around the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They served as enclosed farmsteads, with the surrounding bank providing a degree of protection for people and livestock rather than functioning as a military fortification in any serious sense. Most have a fosse as part of their defensive arrangement, so the absence of one here, if the local account is accurate, is a minor but genuine curiosity. At roughly 12 metres in diameter, this was a modest example, closer to the smaller end of the scale for such enclosures. Its location within an active farmyard is not surprising, as agricultural land in Ireland has continuously reused and built over earlier occupation sites for centuries, but it does explain how something so physically tangible could go unrecorded and then disappear without wider notice.