This one does none of those things. Sitting on a ridge about 150 metres north of Tyrone Bay in Carrowmore, County Galway, the ringfort has all but dissolved back into the landscape. At ground level, there is simply nothing to see.

A ringfort, or rath, is one of the most common monument types in Ireland, typically a circular area enclosed by an earthen bank, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period. This example was catalogued by McCaffrey in 1952, who classified it as a very denuded earthen fort with a diameter of roughly 40 metres, its defining bank so eroded as to leave almost no surface trace. It appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure, but the centuries have been unkind to it. What the eye cannot detect on the ground, however, aerial photography can sometimes recover. The outline of the fort is legible in an ortho aerial photograph taken in 2005, a faint circular crop or soil mark pressed into the ridge like a memory the earth has not quite let go of.