This one in Sracummer, County Leitrim, offers almost none of that. What survives is a single fragment of wall-footing, roughly fifteen metres along its chord, rising no higher than forty centimetres in places, half-buried in rushes at the top of a small knoll. The perimeter of what was once known locally as a fort cannot be traced anywhere else on the ground. It is less a monument than a rumour of one.

The site is a cashel, a term for a ringfort whose enclosing boundary was built from stone rather than earth and timber. Cashels are found widely across Ireland, particularly in areas where field stone was readily available, and they served as the basic unit of early medieval settlement, enclosing a farmstead and its inhabitants. This example sits on a rise in undulating farmland about 650 metres from the southern shore of Lough Melvin, a positioning that would have offered a modest but useful elevation over the surrounding terrain. Archaeological testing carried out in 2018, under licence 18E0535 and reported by Halpin, examined the farm lane immediately to the west of the site where a water pipe was being laid. The investigation found that the lane had been cut down into the subsoil at some point, and that no archaeological features remained along that corridor. Whatever the cashel once looked like in full, the ground to its west has little left to say.