Ringforts, known in Irish as raths or lios depending on regional usage, were the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches. Thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation, and yet each one represents a household, a family, a working farm from roughly the period between 500 and 1000 AD. The example at Molum is one of these quiet survivors, recorded but as yet little publicised.