What appears from a distance to be a slight rise in a gently sloping pasture turns out, on closer inspection, to be the surviving earthworks of an early medieval ringfort, its enclosing banks still legible in the grass after more than a thousand years. Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were the standard farmstead type of early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a roughly circular enclosed area defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and used as a defended homestead for a family and their livestock. What makes the Drombanny example quietly interesting is precisely how much survives, and how much can still be read by anyone willing to walk its perimeter carefully.