On a south-facing slope just north of the Corofin to Kilfenora road, on the western edge of the walled garden belonging to the famous Leamaneh Castle, the ground holds no visible trace of what was once recorded as a ringfort some thirty metres across. A curving field fence to the west hints that the land itself remembers the outline, bending slightly as if to respect something that was once there.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically dating from the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They were usually formed by one or more earthen banks and ditches surrounding a central living area. The Leamaneh example was clearly legible enough in 1840 to be marked with hachures, the short radiating lines cartographers used to indicate an earthwork, on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map. By 1900 the antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp had visited and labelled it simply as "Fort" on his published plan of the Leamaneh estate. Its maximum diameter of thirty metres places it in the middle range for such enclosures. What happened between Westropp's plan and the present day, when no upstanding remains survive, is not recorded, but agricultural improvement and the proximity of a working demesne are the kinds of pressures that flattened countless similar sites across Clare and the rest of Ireland.