The one at Belville, in Co. Kilkenny, made a different choice. It sits on a flat, low-lying valley bottom, in boggy ground, with views across the floor of the valley rather than above it. That alone makes it worth a second look.

A ringfort, or rath, is an early medieval enclosed settlement, typically dating from roughly the sixth to the tenth century, formed by one or more banks and ditches thrown up around a farmstead or homestead. The Belville example is modest in scale, roughly circular and about 25 metres in diameter. Its earthen bank is low and wide, around 2.5 metres across, rising about a metre on the interior and just over two metres on the outer face. Beyond it sits a wide, shallow external fosse, the ditch that would once have reinforced the enclosure's defensive or boundary function, measuring some 4 metres across and nearly 2 metres deep. There are faint traces of a further outer bank to the south, though this may simply be a later field boundary that has blurred into the older earthwork over time. The eastern quadrant of the inner bank has been badly worn down, and the fosse is most clearly readable along the western half, running from south to north.