This one is perhaps more interesting for what has been absorbed back into the working landscape around it. Sitting on a south-facing slope amid pastureland and tillage in Feagh, County Galway, a circular rath roughly forty metres in diameter has been quietly losing ground to the rhythms of ordinary farming for a very long time.

A rath is an early medieval enclosure, typically dating from somewhere between the sixth and twelfth centuries, formed by one or more earthen banks with an external fosse, or ditch, used to define a farmstead and its associated space. The Feagh example retains its bank and fosse along the southern, western, and northern arc, but the circuit is broken in several places by cow gaps, the simple openings knocked or worn through earthen banks to allow livestock to pass between fields. Field walls cut across the monument at both the northern and southern ends, and the bank itself has been colonised by trees and shrubs, softening what would once have been a deliberate and maintained boundary. The field directly to the east had been under the plough at the time of inspection, pressing right up against the monument's edge.