The rath at Cloonteens, County Kerry, does none of that. Standing on the north-facing slope near the summit of its low hill, you would see only pasture. The enclosure, roughly circular and around 25 metres in diameter, has been levelled to the point where it leaves no impression on the surface at all.

A rath is an early medieval ringfort, typically a circular area enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead and defended residence. This one was still legible enough to be mapped twice, appearing on the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheets of both 1846 and 1894. By the 1840s, however, it was already being described as tilled, meaning the land had been turned over to cultivation, which would account for the gradual erasure of whatever earthworks once defined it. It was recorded at that time under the name Lissheenmeel Fort, a name that preserves traces of Irish: lios or lisseen pointing to a small fort or enclosure, and meel possibly a personal name or local descriptor whose exact meaning is now harder to pin down.