This one in the townland of Spittle, County Limerick, offers nothing so obliging. Where a curving earthwork once swept from northwest to northeast across open pasture, there is now a cluster of modern farm buildings. The feature that cartographers carefully recorded across two editions of the Ordnance Survey maps has, by all measurable accounts, ceased to exist at ground level.

The story of this earthwork is largely one of gradual disappearance tracked through maps rather than excavation. It does not appear on the 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which suggests it was either overlooked or already too faint to merit inclusion at that scale. By the 1897 edition of the more detailed 25-inch map, however, it was recorded as a curving scarp, a slope or cut in the ground indicating a deliberate shaping of the landscape, running from northwest around to the east, with a post-1700 field boundary cutting across it at the northwest end. Later Cassini editions of the six-inch map describe the same feature as a curving bank. Nearby, a series of excavated pits recorded separately in the national monuments record lie within 180 to 260 metres to the northwest and southwest, hinting that this corner of Spittle saw more activity than its current appearance suggests. The earthwork sits roughly 80 metres south of the townland boundary with Duntryleague and 110 metres west of the boundary with Ballynatona, placing it in a quietly layered landscape of old divisions.

Ortho-imagery captured between 2011 and 2013, and confirmed again on Google Earth, shows no surface trace of the earthwork remaining. For anyone drawn to the site, the record compiled by Fiona Rooney and uploaded in October 2021 is effectively the most complete account available. There is little to see on the ground, and the farm buildings now occupying the area mean access would require the landowner's permission in any case. What this site offers is less a physical experience than a small lesson in how the archaeological record works: features survive in maps long after they vanish from the earth, and their absence is itself a kind of information.