This ringfort on the eastern flank of Urraghy Hill in County Galway offers none of that. It exists, at this point, almost entirely on paper, a circular enclosure roughly thirty metres in diameter that was recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map but has since left no visible trace on the ground. The undulating grassland shows nothing.

A rath, as ringforts of this earthen type are known, would originally have consisted of a raised circular bank, probably with an internal ditch, enclosing a farmstead or family settlement. They are among the most common monument types in the Irish landscape, built predominantly during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. This one was clearly legible to the nineteenth-century surveyors who produced that first OS edition, which means its earthworks survived long enough to be mapped before agricultural activity, drainage, or simple erosion levelled whatever remained. About fifty metres to the south-southeast lies a second earthwork, suggesting this part of Urraghy Hill may have seen a cluster of settlement activity, though what relationship the two enclosures had to one another is now difficult to determine.