This one in Baunoulagh, County Cork, offers none of that. The ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead common across early medieval Ireland typically defined by one or more circular earthen banks and ditches, has been levelled so completely that there is nothing left to see at ground level. The pasture on the south-facing slope where it once stood gives no indication that anything lies beneath it at all.

The site does have a paper trail, however, which tells a partial story of gradual erasure. On the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 it was recorded as a hachured circular enclosure roughly 35 metres in diameter, the hachuring indicating a raised earthwork clear enough to map in the field. By the 1937 revision it was still there, shown as a hachured raised area, though the language of the mapping already suggests something slightly diminished. By 1934, Bowman had noted it on the ground as a levelled single-ramparted fort, approximately 40 yards in diameter, on land belonging to a Mr Bresnahan. At that point it had already lost its bank but retained enough of a footprint to be identified. What distinguishes the site from simple absence is an aerial photograph, reference GSIAP R721, in which the ghost of the enclosure reappears as a cropmark, the buried remnant of the bank affecting moisture retention in the soil above it and producing a faint circular trace in the vegetation. Adding a further layer of interest, a second ringfort survives in the same field, roughly 30 metres to the south, meaning that two such enclosures once occupied this single slope, a pairing not unusual in the Irish landscape but still suggestive of dense early settlement activity in what is now unremarkable grazing land.