On the north-western slope of a hill in Turlough, County Galway, there was once a circular enclosure of around twenty-five metres in diameter, sitting just north of a county road and some fifty metres south-west of a ringfort. A ringfort, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a type of enclosed farmstead common in early medieval Ireland, typically defined by one or more earthen banks. This enclosure may have been related to its neighbour, or it may have served an entirely separate purpose. Either way, it is gone. No visible surface trace survives.

The site was recorded on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where it appears as a simple circular enclosure. By the time the third edition was produced in 1930, the picture had grown slightly more complex: the enclosure was still shown at roughly twenty-five metres across, but it was now depicted as being surrounded by a fosse, a ditch cut into the ground, with that outer feature extending to a maximum diameter of around forty metres. Whether the fosse had always been there and was simply not captured in the earlier survey, or whether the cartographers had access to better information by the later edition, is not recorded. What is clear is that between 1930 and now, the physical remains disappeared entirely from the landscape.