This one barely does. Somewhere in the undulating farmland of Crannagh in County Galway, a circular cashel sits in a state of near-total collapse, its perimeter reduced to a fragmentary arc of fallen drystone. A cashel is a type of early medieval ringfort enclosed by a stone wall rather than an earthen bank, and they were once a common feature of the Irish landscape, used as farmsteads and enclosures by farming families and local lords alike. Here, only a section of that defining wall survives, curving from the east-southeast around through south to west-southwest, roughly half the original circuit. The rest has vanished entirely, leaving no visible trace on the surface.

The structure is estimated at approximately forty metres in diameter, which would place it within the typical range for a cashel of this type. Whether it was a working farmstead, a place of local authority, or something more modest, the notes do not say, and the ground itself offers little in the way of answers. What remains is a collapsed arc of drystone, a rough geometry in a working field, easy to walk past without recognising it for what it is.