This one in Killeenoghty, County Limerick, went more quietly, flattened in the 1980s with the interior graded level to compensate for the natural slope of the ground. What survives is barely legible in the landscape, and yet its outline can still be traced from aerial imagery taken as recently as 2020, a faint circular ghost pressed into the pasture on a north-facing slope.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, was typically an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and used for settlement and livestock management. The Killeenoghty example appears clearly on the 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, drawn as a circular enclosure in the fields near the townland boundary with Drumloughan South. By the time the 25-inch edition was published in 1897, something had already shifted in how the site was perceived: it was recorded simply as a small field, with no indication that anything of archaeological significance lay within. When the Archaeological Survey of Ireland examined it in 2000, what remained was a roughly circular area measuring approximately 20 metres east to west, with a bank largely reduced to a scarp, running from the north-west around through the north and east to the east-south-east, standing no more than 0.8 metres high at its tallest. A field boundary cuts across the site from the south-west. Locally, residents have long referred to it as a fort, a term that often persists in rural memory long after the physical evidence has been compromised. An ecclesiastical enclosure lies roughly 430 metres to the south-west, suggesting the wider townland held some significance in the early Christian period.

The site sits in agricultural pasture, and there is little on the ground to draw the eye without foreknowledge of what to look for. The interior is level and free of overgrowth, which under the right light conditions, particularly low winter sun, can help throw any remaining earthwork into slight relief. Aerial and satellite imagery remains perhaps the most useful tool here; the levelled monument was still detectable in orthophotos taken between 2005 and 2012, and a faint trace persisted in Google Earth images from 2018 and 2020. For anyone interested in the process of monument loss rather than monument survival, this site makes for an unusually candid case study.