In the townland of Anglont in County Kerry, a ringfort once sat on a south-facing slope in the north-west corner of a pasture field. A rath, as these earthen enclosures are known, was typically the fortified homestead of an early medieval farming family, defined by one or more circular banks and ditches. This one measured roughly thirty metres in diameter, enough to have sheltered a household, its animals, and whatever daily life looked like a thousand or more years ago. By the mid-1990s, it was gone, levelled along with a second rath that had stood about eighty metres to the north-west, both removed within the same short period.

The site had a documented existence long before it was erased. The 1895 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it clearly as a circular enclosure, and half a century earlier, in the 1840s, a surveyor noted the presence of two forts towards the eastern part of the townland. One of these carried a name that appears in the records as 'Angles or Lissknocknaholla', a place-name that folds together an anglicised form and an Irish original suggesting something like the fort of the hill of the hollow. A trigonometrical station, a fixed survey point used by mapmakers, was associated with one of the two raths, though exactly which one shifted between the 1840s account and the 1846 map, where the name 'Lissknocknahulla' was attached to this rath while the trig station migrated to its neighbour. That small discrepancy, a name moved, a survey point reassigned, captures something of how casually the historical record accommodates ambiguity when the physical evidence no longer exists to settle the matter.