In the townland of Ballyteige Upper in County Limerick, a circular embanked enclosure once sat on a terrace cut into a north-facing slope. It measured approximately thirty metres in diameter, large enough to have been a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead that dots the Irish countryside in its thousands and dates broadly to the early medieval period. By the time anyone thought to record it formally, it was already gone, levelled by centuries of agricultural use and, more recently, by tillage.

The enclosure appears on the 1923 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which is itself a significant document for Irish landscape archaeology, produced in a period when many earthworks still retained enough form to be surveyed and plotted with reasonable confidence. That map shows the feature clearly as a circular embanked enclosure. When Denis Power later inspected the site, he found no visible trace of the monument as a distinct structure. What he did note was a curve in an earthen field boundary running from south-southwest to north-northwest, standing about 1.6 metres high, which may incorporate part of the original enclosing bank. It is the kind of survival that rewards close attention rather than a casual glance; the enclosure has not entirely disappeared so much as it has been absorbed into the working landscape around it.

The site sits in tillage ground on a terrace of a north-facing slope, which means the surrounding land is actively farmed and access would depend on the season and the goodwill of the landowner. There is nothing to see in the conventional sense, no upstanding earthwork, no visible archaeology. The interest lies in that curving field boundary and in the discipline of reading a landscape against a historical map. Bringing a copy of the relevant OS sheet helps considerably. The slope and terrace setting are themselves worth noting; enclosures were often positioned to take advantage of natural landforms, and even where the monument has been lost, the topography that made the location attractive in the first place remains.