The one at Moyveela, in County Galway, offers almost nothing. A faint trace of a low bank along its western edge is all that remains above ground of what was once a circular enclosure roughly forty metres across, a site whose entire biography has been quietly erased from the landscape.

A ringfort, or rath, is one of the most common early medieval monument types in Ireland, typically a farmstead enclosed by one or more earthen banks, used for settlement and the protection of livestock from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. The Moyveela example was still legible enough in 1838 to be recorded on the first Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a clear circular enclosure sitting on a rise in undulating pastureland. By the time the revised edition was produced in 1920, a field boundary running northeast to southwest had been cut directly across it. That single agricultural decision, a farmer straightening or extending a boundary at some point in the intervening decades, effectively ended whatever chance the earthwork had of surviving into the present. The rise in the ground remains, and the landscape still rolls around it in the same way it always did, but the monument itself has been absorbed into the ordinary geometry of the fields.