The example at Ballycasey Beg, in County Clare, is one such site: present, mapped, and counted, but not yet fully examined in the public record.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths or cashels depending on whether they were built from earth or stone, were typically the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, dating broadly from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. A family of some local standing would have lived within the circular bank and ditch, sheltering people and livestock alike. Clare is particularly rich in these structures, sitting as it does in a region where both earthen and stone-built examples survive in considerable numbers. Ballycasey Beg lies in the east of the county, not far from Shannon, in a landscape that has seen human activity since prehistory. Without more detailed field notes in circulation, the specific form of this ringfort, whether a simple single-banked enclosure or something more elaborate, remains to be confirmed by those with access to primary survey material.