Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, are roughly circular enclosures defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, and used primarily as farmsteads by families of varying social rank. Ireland has somewhere in the region of forty to fifty thousand of them, yet each one marks a specific place where people chose to settle, enclose their lives, and work a particular patch of ground. The one at Darragh is among those that have not yet had their details widely circulated, which makes the site easy to pass over without a second thought.