The one at Carrowgarry in County Sligo does the opposite. It sits on a low rise surrounded by poorly drained, waterlogged pasture, a location that seems almost deliberately understated. That mild elevation, barely perceptible from a distance, is all that lifts it above the soggy ground around it.

The site takes the form of a slightly raised circular area roughly 24 metres in diameter, a scale typical of the raths that served as enclosed farmsteads across early medieval Ireland, probably between the sixth and tenth centuries. A rath is simply an earthen ringfort, a raised bank encircling a domestic settlement rather than a military fortification. At Carrowgarry, that bank survives in varying condition: on the arc running from the south-southeast to the north, it retains a reasonable profile, measuring about 3.9 metres in width with an interior height of one metre and an exterior height of two metres. Around the rest of the circuit, time and agricultural activity have worn it down to little more than a slight scarp in the ground, a faint wrinkle in the pasture that you might walk past without registering what it once was.