In the undulating pasture of Ballywinterrourkewood, in County Limerick, a ringfort once stood that is now almost entirely gone, its circular earthen bank reduced to little more than a faint scar in the landscape. Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically built during the early medieval period in Ireland, their occupants living within a raised bank and ditch that offered both a degree of protection and a clear statement of social standing. This one has been levelled.

The 1841 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the site clearly as an embanked circular enclosure, approximately forty metres in diameter, which places it comfortably within the typical size range for this class of monument. That early cartographic evidence is now the most legible record of what was once a substantial earthwork. Compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the national record in August 2011, the site entry notes that what survives is a low scarped edge, running from the south-west around to the north-north-west, standing only about twenty centimetres high and four metres wide. A scarp, in this context, simply means the remaining slope or cut edge of what was once a more pronounced bank. It is the kind of detail that rewards close attention but could easily be walked across without a second thought.

The interior of the enclosure, now under pasture like the surrounding land, slopes gently down toward the north-east. There are no formal access arrangements noted for the site, and given its condition, it falls into the category of monument that benefits more from knowing what to look for than from any dramatic visible feature. The most productive approach is to consult the 1841 OS mapping beforehand, either through the Historic Environment Viewer or the OSI historic map layers, which allow the original cartographic depiction to be overlaid on modern satellite imagery. Coming to the field with that image in mind makes the slight change in ground level, the barely-there remnant of the bank along its south-western arc, legible in a way it otherwise would not be.