The one at Sragarve, in County Leitrim, does something rather different. It sits in a low-lying, waterlogged stretch of ground close to the southern shore of Lough Melvin, half-swallowed by grass and reeds, its outline flattened to the point where it reads less as a monument and more as a slight, persistent irregularity in the landscape.

The site is D-shaped rather than the more typical circular form, measuring roughly 29 metres north to south and 26.5 metres east to west. What survives is a scarp, essentially the eroded remnant of what was once a more substantial bank, dropping from around a metre in height at the northwest to just 35 centimetres at the southwest. There are faint traces of a fosse, the external ditch that would originally have reinforced the enclosure, but these are barely legible now. Compounding the difficulty is a north to south field bank and townland boundary that cuts directly across the western side of the site, truncating it and absorbing part of the original form into a much later agricultural boundary. A small stream runs roughly east to west about ten metres to the south. The cumulative effect is of something that has been quietly dismantled by centuries of drainage work, field division, and the general dampness of the ground itself.

Ringforts of this kind, known in Irish as raths when defined primarily by earthen banks rather than stone, were typically the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, in use roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. The Sragarve example is modest in scale and, given its setting, was probably always somewhat marginal, positioned between the lough to the north and the wetland to the south in a way that would have made it both defensible and awkward to farm.