This one in Barnane, County Tipperary, offers nothing of the sort. The enclosure is gone, levelled so thoroughly that there is nothing left to see at ground level, and yet it remains on record as a site, a kind of archaeological ghost occupying a patch of flat upland pasture.

An enclosure, in the Irish archaeological sense, typically refers to a defined area bounded by an earthen bank, ditch, or stone wall, often associated with early medieval settlement or land use. The Barnane example was still present when the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map was made in the mid-nineteenth century, which places its survival at least to around 1840. Sometime between that survey and a later mapping in 1904, it disappeared, almost certainly removed during the intensification of agricultural activity that reshaped so much of the Irish countryside across those decades. Two related enclosure sites survive nearby, to the northwest and north, which suggests this part of the uplands was once a more densely settled or organised landscape than its present emptiness implies.