At Killaturly in County Mayo, a likely rath sits in open pasture on a gentle rise, its form so worn down that only a ghostly arc of scarp survives, bending eastward and southward before dissolving into the surrounding slope.

A rath, also known as a ringfort, is a roughly circular enclosed settlement type common across early medieval Ireland, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. The Killaturly example was documented clearly enough in the 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which showed a circular embanked enclosure roughly 35 to 40 metres across. By the time the 1919 edition was produced, something significant had changed: the northern half of the structure had been levelled, leaving only a semi-circular remnant rendered in hachure markings. Since then, even that partial outline has largely gone, the earthwork merged with the natural topography of the hill. To the west, the ground drops away in a concave slope towards a depression of wettish ground, which may well have made the western approach to any original settlement both naturally defended and inconveniently damp. The views south across rough pasture and bog, and west over rolling grassland, suggest the site was deliberately positioned to command a wide sightline across the surrounding landscape, a common consideration in early medieval settlement planning.