Near Kilcooly in County Kerry, a circular earthwork enclosure once occupied the landscape southeast of a neighbouring site. A rath, as these earthen ringforts are known, would typically have enclosed a farmstead during the early medieval period, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. This one has been levelled entirely, leaving nothing visible above ground.

What makes the site's story traceable at all is the Ordnance Survey record. The enclosure appears on the 1841 to 1842 OS maps, meaning it was still sufficiently intact to be recorded by the surveyors of that period. By the time the 1916 edition was drawn up, the western section had already disappeared, suggesting gradual erosion or clearance over the intervening decades. At some point after that, the remainder was levelled altogether. C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, documented the site among hundreds of others across the region, preserving at least a paper outline of something the ground itself no longer holds.