The one at Barrinclay in County Cork does almost the opposite. Largely levelled, it survives less as a monument than as a set of subtle clues distributed across a working pasture on a north-facing slope, readable only once you know what to look for.

A rath, as ringforts of this earthwork type are known, was typically a circular enclosure defined by one or more banks and ditches, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. At Barrinclay, the inner circuit, measuring about 26.5 metres north to south, is still faintly traceable as a low rise running from the north-north-east toward the south-west. A second, outer bank has largely disappeared from the surface but leaves its mark as a cropmark, the kind of differential growth in grass or grain that appears in dry conditions and betrays buried features below ground. Intriguingly, that outer bank has also survived in a more practical form, absorbed into the existing field fence system, where it still stands to a height of around 1.2 metres along the south-west to north arc. The distance between the inner and outer bank on the south-west side is approximately eight metres. Somewhere in the southern half of the interior, there may also be a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber that in early medieval Ireland served variously for storage, refuge, or ventilation of a dwelling above.