This one draws nobody, because there is nothing left to see. At Dromatoor in north County Kerry, a ringfort once stood and is now entirely gone, leaving behind only its ghost on a nineteenth-century map and a blank patch of ground where no earthwork remains.

A rath, as this type of enclosure is also known, is a circular earthen bank and ditch that typically enclosed a farmstead during the early medieval period in Ireland, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Thousands survive across the country in varying states of preservation. The Dromatoor example was still visible enough to be recorded on the Ordnance Survey map of 1842, which suggests it retained some physical presence at that point. By the time the 1916 edition of the same mapping series was produced, however, it had vanished from the record entirely. Whether it was levelled for agriculture, robbed for building material, or simply eroded away in the intervening decades is not known. C. Toal, writing in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey published in 1995, notes that no trace remains today.

What makes this site quietly interesting is less what it was and more what its disappearance illustrates. The period between those two OS editions, roughly seventy years, was one of considerable upheaval in rural Ireland, including the aftermath of the Famine, large-scale land consolidation, and the clearance of field boundaries and earthworks that had survived for centuries. Many ringforts across the country were lost in precisely this window. The Dromatoor rath is a small, specific example of a much wider pattern of erasure, documented just thoroughly enough to confirm that something was once there.