This one in Laragh, County Galway, was not so fortunate. Of a circular enclosure that once measured roughly 38 metres across, only an arc of its original earthen bank now remains, running from the northern side around through the east and tapering off to the east-southeast, where a field boundary cuts across the monument. The rest is gone.

A ringfort is a roughly circular enclosure, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, built during the early medieval period in Ireland and used as a farmstead or place of habitation. They are among the most common archaeological monument types in the country, which makes the loss of each one a small but genuine subtraction from the record. At Laragh, the subtraction was deliberate and recent. According to Professor Rynne, who communicated the information directly, the landowner levelled the greater part of the monument in 1982. That date gives the loss an uncomfortable precision; it happened well within living memory, after the value of such sites was widely understood. Associated with the ringfort is a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage that typically served early medieval settlements as a place of storage or refuge, recorded separately in the sites database for this area of north Galway.