Somewhere beneath the pasture of a gently south-facing slope at Carrigmore, the earthworks of a ringfort, the circular enclosed farmstead that was the standard unit of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, have sunk so completely into the ground that nothing at all is visible at surface level. The grass simply continues, uninterrupted, over whatever remains beneath.

What makes the site's history slightly more legible is a map. In 1773 to 1774, the surveyor Bernard Scalé recorded a circular enclosure here, labelling it 'Danish Fort', a name that tells us as much about eighteenth-century folk belief as it does about archaeology. Across Ireland, ringforts were routinely attributed to the Danes, a catch-all term applied to any earthwork whose real origins, typically Iron Age to early medieval, were either forgotten or misunderstood. Scalé's map, held at the National Library of Ireland, fixes at least the outline of the enclosure at that point in time, even if the ground itself now offers no confirmation. Roughly thirty metres to the north-east, there is also a possible standing stone, catalogued separately, whose relationship to the ringfort is unknown.