The example at Lisheen in County Clare is one such site, a rath, which is the Irish term for a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank and ditch, typically dating to the early medieval period between roughly 500 and 1000 AD. These enclosures served primarily as farmsteads, the banked perimeter offering a degree of protection for a family, their livestock, and their grain stores rather than functioning as a military fortification in any serious sense.

Clare is particularly well furnished with such monuments, the landscape having supported dense rural settlement throughout the early medieval centuries when the rath was the standard unit of agricultural life. The placename Lisheen is itself suggestive: it derives from the Irish loisín or lisín, a diminutive of lios, another word for a ringfort enclosure, meaning the settlement name may actually preserve a memory of the monument itself. Beyond the site's location in this part of Clare and its classification as a rath, the specific details of its construction, condition, and any associated finds or features remain to be more fully documented in the public record.