In a field of good rolling pasture near Laragh in County Sligo, a slight rise in the ground and a curving field boundary are, in all likelihood, the last visible traces of a ringfort, the kind of enclosed farmstead that was once one of the most common features of the early medieval Irish countryside. Tens of thousands were built across Ireland, typically consisting of a circular bank and ditch enclosing a family's dwelling and outbuildings. This one, however, barely announces itself at all.

Officially, the site occupies an uncertain position in the record. It was classified in 1989 as a possible enclosure, and by 1995 the designation had shifted slightly to a possible ringfort, with the further qualification that it might be a rath, an earthen-banked enclosure, or a cashel, which would instead have had a stone wall as its boundary. The double uncertainty is not unusual for sites of this type; centuries of farming, field reorganisation, and general wear have reduced many ringforts to little more than a faint swelling in the turf. Here, the best-preserved section survives on the eastern side of the field boundary, immediately behind a house, where the ground holds its shape just clearly enough to suggest what was once there.