The northern portion of the large circular enclosure at Dangansallagh, sitting atop a low hillock on a north-south ridge in County Tipperary, had been absorbed into a field boundary, leaving only the southern half still marked with the cartographers' hachures. The enclosure itself had been levelled at some point, yet the ground retains enough memory of its original shape to reward a careful eye.

A rath, as ringforts of this earthen type are commonly known, was the typical farmstead of early medieval Ireland, occupied roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. A family and their livestock would have lived within the raised, circular enclosure, protected by an earthen bank and an outer ditch. At Dangansallagh the essential geometry is still readable: the outline measures approximately 29 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, making it a reasonably substantial example. Traces of a scarp survive to around half a metre in height, and a fosse, the defensive ditch that once ringed the exterior, remains partially visible at around 2.6 metres wide and 0.7 metres deep. A further outer bank, roughly 2.1 metres wide, can still be detected on the western side. Inside the enclosure, a semicircular or L-shaped bank in the north-eastern sector has been tentatively identified as a later field boundary, laid down after the rath itself had fallen out of use, one occupier's boundary quietly overwriting another's. Adding a further layer of interest, a possible moated site, a different class of enclosed settlement more typically associated with Anglo-Norman lords of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, lies approximately 80 metres to the west-southwest, suggesting the ridge at Dangansallagh attracted successive generations who valued the same modest elevation over the surrounding pastureland.