Where early medieval farmers once enclosed their homestead within an earthen bank, the ground now offers only the faintest suggestion that anything was ever there at all.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is one of the most common monument types in Ireland, typically a circular area defined by one or more banks and ditches, used as a defended farmstead during the early medieval period. This particular example at Correaly is notable more for its condition than its scale. When it was recorded in 1974, it was still upstanding, described as a small circular area roughly 29 metres north to south and 31 metres east to west, defined by a low and poorly preserved bank of earth and stone. There was no detectable fosse, the term for the enclosing ditch that usually accompanies such a bank, and no clear entrance feature could be identified. The interior slopes gently from south-west to north-east. By the time aerial photography captured the site in November 2011, even that modest bank had deteriorated to the point where only its outline remained legible from above. Another ringfort sits approximately 35 metres to the east, suggesting this was once a small cluster of enclosed settlements in the same landscape.