The site at Lickbla in County Westmeath complicates that picture. Here, the interior of the ringfort has been divided up by low earthen banks, and within those subdivisions, the outlines of not one but two rectangular structures are still legible in the ground. Rectangular buildings are themselves worth pausing over: the more familiar image of early Irish domestic architecture tends toward the round or oval, so a rectangular plan, if confirmed, would carry its own quiet significance.

The larger of the two outlines sits roughly at the centre of the ringfort. The second, smaller structure adjoins the southern bank of the enclosure, tucked against its edge as though making use of the existing earthwork as one of its own walls, a practical arrangement that would have saved both labour and materials. The site sits on a gently south-eastward-facing slope amid undulating lowland terrain, and the position was clearly chosen with some care: views open out to the east, south, and west across the Westmeath landscape. That kind of sightline was rarely accidental in early settlement; it combined the practical advantages of surveillance with the subtler one of situating a household visibly within its territory.