The one recorded at Meggagh in County Clare offers almost none of that. On a west-facing slope of reclaimed pasture, the site was noted on the 1920 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a possible enclosure, roughly subcircular in plan and measuring approximately 35 metres north to south by 34 metres east to west. Today, apart from a section of heavily overgrown walling at its northern edge, partly buried under a stone spoil heap, no visible surface trace survives.

The disappearance of the enclosure is largely a consequence of land reclamation. Field walls across the surrounding area were cleared during that process, and whatever boundary or structure once defined this site was caught up in the same erasure. The surviving northern wall section is so densely overgrown that surveyors could not determine its original nature, whether it formed part of a ringfort, a field enclosure, or something else entirely. Roughly 167 metres to the north-west lies a cliff-edge fort, a type of defended enclosure that uses a natural precipice as part of its boundary, which hints that the wider landscape around Meggagh was once more thoroughly occupied or organised than its present agricultural appearance would suggest.

What remains, then, is essentially a cartographic ghost: a shape recorded on a map over a century ago, corresponding now to a scrap of buried stonework under bramble and scrub. The site sits in that common but quietly unsettling category of places that are known to have existed, but can no longer be properly read.