In a pasture field to the south-east of a farmyard in Leamnaguila, on a south-west-facing slope in County Kerry, there is nothing to see. The ground is level, the grass grows evenly, and no earthwork interrupts the surface. What was once a rath, a type of circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches that served as a farmstead in early medieval Ireland, has been entirely erased from the landscape.

The site had two enclosing banks before it disappeared. Partial levelling took place in the 1970s, and whatever remained was cleared in the mid-1990s. Before all of this, the 1894 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it clearly as a circular enclosure roughly thirty metres in diameter, ringed on the outside by a field boundary. A 1995 excavation of a small portion of the north-east section, chosen because it appeared to have escaped disturbance, found nothing of archaeological significance. The rath had not merely been levelled; it had, in any recoverable sense, been lost entirely.