Locals call it "fort field", though there is no bank, no ditch, no raised earth to see. The ringfort that once occupied the south-western corner of that field has been ploughed flat, leaving only the name and a trace on a Victorian map as evidence that anything was ever there.

A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period in Ireland. The Curraghbower example was a modest one: a single-ramparted fort measuring approximately thirty yards in diameter, set on an east-facing slope, presumably to make the most of morning light and drainage. By 1842, when the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch map of the area, the fort was already reduced enough that the cartographers rendered it as a semicircular arc of hachured bank running from north-west to south-east, enclosing only the south-western edge of the field. It was not a complete circuit even then. By 1934, when a researcher named Bowman documented it, the structure was recorded as fully levelled and situated on land belonging to E. O'Sullivan. No surface trace has been identified since.