This one, a rath near Kisha in County Wexford, offers nothing so obliging. Walk across the pasture where it lies, and the ground gives nothing away. The ringfort is entirely invisible at surface level, its presence detectable only from the air, where the buried remains of its enclosing banks betray themselves as a cropmark, the differential drying of soil above buried features producing faint but readable differences in the colour and growth of crops above.

What the aerial photographs reveal is a bivallate enclosure, meaning one defined by two concentric banks and ditches rather than the single circuit more commonly seen in Irish ringforts. The interior diameter runs to roughly 45 metres, placing it in a fairly typical range for a rath of this type. Ringforts, known in Irish as ráth when earthen, were the dominant settlement form of early medieval Ireland, functioning as enclosed farmsteads for a family and their livestock. The Kisha example sits on a gentle rise within an otherwise level landscape, with a small stream running roughly north to south about 200 metres to the east, a detail that would have made the location quietly practical for whoever chose to settle here perhaps twelve or more centuries ago. Only the south-eastern quadrant of the double enclosure shows clearly in the aerial record, though the full circuit can be reconstructed from what is visible.