The rath at Camas is one of those sites that rewards attention precisely because it asks so much of the eye. The earthwork has been levelled and absorbed into the surrounding pasture, yet it has not quite disappeared.

A rath, or ringfort, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earth banks, typically used as a farmstead and settlement during the early medieval period in Ireland, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. This particular example was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1924 as an embanked circular enclosure with a diameter of around thirty metres. By the time the site was documented by Denis Power and uploaded to the record in August 2011, that bank had been levelled and the interior brought into use as a pasture field. A field boundary that once cut across the southern edge of the enclosure has since been removed. What remains, however, is more than nothing. The site is still legible as a circular area roughly forty-nine metres in diameter, marked by a scarped edge, a low but distinct scarp about four metres wide and just under half a metre high, with a shallow external fosse, the term for a ditch associated with an earthwork, running around its outer edge. The fosse here measures around two and a half metres wide and only twenty centimetres deep, which gives a sense of how close to erasure the monument has come.

The site sits in level pasture, which means the slight changes in topography that betray its outline are easier to read at certain times of year than others. Low winter sun, or a dry summer that causes differential growth in the grass above the buried fosse, can throw the circular form into relief far more clearly than a visit during the lush growth of late spring. There are no formal access arrangements recorded for this site, and as it lies within a working field, any visit would require the landowner's permission. The interior is level and grassed over, offering little in the way of surface finds or visible features, but the encircling scarp, once you have trained your eye to find it, draws a surprisingly clear circle in the landscape.