In the townland of Baile Ristín on the Dingle Peninsula, four clochans, the dry-stone beehive huts associated with early medieval settlement in the west of Ireland, were recorded in the area. By the time serious archaeological attention arrived, no definite trace of them survived above ground.

The researcher F. H. A. Aalen noted the four clochans in 1964, placing them within a broader study of the region's vernacular stone structures. What subsequent survey work did find, however, were four sheep-pens or shelters on the same ground. The significant detail is that three of these enclosures appear to have been built on and from the remains of the earlier huts, their stones repurposed and their footprints absorbed into the practical needs of later farming. It is a quiet kind of erasure, one generation of builders cannibalising the work of another without any particular awareness, or perhaps without any particular concern, for what they were dismantling. The Dingle Peninsula carries an unusually dense concentration of early stone architecture, and Baile Ristín fits a pattern seen elsewhere along the Corca Dhuibhne coastline, where ancient structures have been slowly consumed by agricultural use over the centuries.