On the brow of a low hill in undulating grassland near Cappagh in County Galway, there once stood an earthen ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead or defended settlement built in their thousands across Ireland during the early medieval period. Today, no bank, ditch, or earthen wall survives above ground. The site exists now almost entirely as a name and a dot on an old map.

Locally, the fort was known as Lisclandaid, a name recorded by Neary in 1914. The first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, produced in the nineteenth century, shows it as a circular enclosure roughly thirty-five metres in diameter, which would place it at the smaller end of the ringfort scale. Neary's own description at the time was already grim: he called it a circular, earthen hill fort wholly mutilated beyond recognition, and noted that several small landholdings had converged on the fort, suggesting the enclosure's banks had been gradually absorbed or cleared as agricultural boundaries shifted and land was divided. The word "rath" in the site's classification refers to an earthen ringfort, as distinct from a stone-built cashel, and they were once among the most common field monuments in the Irish landscape. This one did not survive the pressures of land use intact enough even to leave a scar.