This one does neither. Near Inch in County Wexford, a ringfort survives only as a faint cropmark, its circular outline becoming legible not to anyone standing in a field but to a camera looking down from the air. A ringfort, or rath, was a roughly circular enclosure, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly 500 to 1000 AD. They are among the most common archaeological monument types in Ireland, numbering in the tens of thousands, yet many have been so thoroughly reduced by centuries of ploughing that only traces remain beneath the soil.

What persists at Inch is the ghost of a fosse, the ditch that would originally have ringed the enclosure, now so shallow that it shapes the crop growing above it rather than the ground itself. In dry summers, differences in soil moisture and depth cause cereal crops to grow at different rates over buried features, and from the air these variations appear as distinct tonal bands or curves. Here, that effect traces a circle roughly 35 metres in diameter, sitting on a slight north-south ridge. The dimensions are modest but consistent with a single-family agricultural enclosure of the early medieval type. Beyond the cropmark evidence and the ridge-top position, little else is documented about this particular site.