At Ballynevin in County Tipperary, an earthwork that once sat on the flat summit of an east-west ridge has been completely erased. No mound, no outline, no shadow in the grass. A quarry has taken the ground entirely, right up to the old field boundary that once marked the monument's eastern edge.

What was there, precisely, is now a matter of archive rather than observation. The Ordnance Survey's second edition six-inch map, surveyed between 1901 and 1905, records a raised oval area roughly thirty metres in diameter on the ridge top. That is modest in scale but consistent with the kind of enclosed earthworks, ringforts or burial mounds, that were once common features of the Tipperary landscape. A related enclosure survives about a hundred metres to the west, which suggests this was not an isolated feature but part of a wider pattern of past activity across the ridge. Whether the two were contemporary or connected in purpose is now impossible to establish from the physical remains, since one of them no longer exists.