The enclosure at Arragh More, on a west-facing slope of gently rolling ground in County Tipperary, offers none of that. There is nothing to see. Not because the site is obscured by vegetation or tucked beneath centuries of accumulated soil, but because it was bulldozed out of existence during the 1970s, leaving a patch of ordinary countryside where a probably ancient enclosure once stood.

Enclosures of this kind, roughly circular or oval boundaries defined by banks, ditches, or stone walls, are among the most common monument types in the Irish landscape, and among the most vulnerable. Many date to the early medieval period and may represent farmsteads, settlement sites, or enclosures associated with pastoral activity. The one at Arragh More is recorded by Barry in 1977, the same year, or close to it, that the bulldozing apparently took place. Whatever form it took, whatever its age or purpose, the record came too late to protect it.