The rath at Lisheennashingane, in Co. Kerry, does the opposite. Standing in the tillage field today, you would see nothing at all. The enclosure was levelled during the 1970s, and whatever topographical trace once remained has long since been absorbed into the working agricultural land around it. Its existence is now largely a matter of maps, memory, and one suggestive object.

A rath is an early medieval ringfort, typically a circular or near-circular earthen enclosure that once defined a farmstead, providing a degree of status and protection for those who lived within it. The Lisheennashingane example was not a perfect circle. The 1846 Ordnance Survey six-inch map records it as a roughly D-shaped enclosure, around 25 metres north to south, with an almost straight southern side running some 30 metres. By the time the 1895 edition of the same map was produced, part of the structure was already diminished, with the north-eastern arc shown only as a hachured scarp, a cartographic symbol indicating a slope or bank rather than a fully upstanding feature. When the landowner finally levelled what remained in the 1970s, the ground yielded a hollowed-out stone, the kind of find that prompts questions that cannot now be answered with any certainty. The site also has a souterrain associated with it, an underground stone-lined passage or chamber of the kind commonly found alongside raths, likely used for storage or refuge. Whether that underground element survives intact beneath the ploughed surface is not recorded.