It leaves no impression on the ground, no earthwork, no visible boundary, yet it has a name: Keogh's Rath. That local retention of a name for something no longer visible is, in its own quiet way, remarkable.

A rath is a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead built and occupied primarily during the early medieval period in Ireland, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Tens of thousands were constructed across the island, typically as a circular bank-and-ditch arrangement enclosing a domestic space. Most survive at least partially above ground. Keogh's Rath, by contrast, has been levelled entirely, its earthworks long since ploughed or built away, leaving only the folk memory of a name to mark the spot. The association with the Keogh family, whoever they were in relation to this site, is now the most durable thing about it.