Some archaeological sites announce themselves with standing stones or crumbling walls. This one in Kilnamack, County Waterford, announces itself with almost nothing at all. A ringfort, the circular or oval enclosure that served as a farmstead and family compound throughout early medieval Ireland, once occupied a west-facing slope here, its semicircular bank curving across pasture land. Today, no trace of it is visible at ground level.

The sole cartographic record of the site appears on the 1923 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where a half-circle of hachures, the fine lines surveyors used to indicate earthen banks and slopes, marks its approximate position. The diameter was around thirty metres, which is modest but not unusual for a ringfort of this kind. Local knowledge has preserved the memory of a semicircular bank, suggesting that within living memory of those who recorded that tradition, something tangible was still there to see or to recall. Whether the bank was levelled by agricultural work or simply sank gradually into the soil is not recorded, but its disappearance from the landscape is total.