At Lisready, in County Limerick, the site survives beneath a tangle of tall grass, brambles, and dense scrub that renders parts of it effectively impenetrable. The earthwork beneath is real enough, a roughly circular enclosure measuring just over twenty-five metres across, but you would have to know precisely where to look to find it.

A rath, to use the Irish term, is an earthen ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish landscape, typically dating from the early medieval period and used as a farmstead enclosed by one or more banks and ditches. The example at Lisready follows the basic form: a scarped edge defining the perimeter to the north and north-west, an earthen bank with a modest internal height of around thirty-five centimetres and a more pronounced external face of nearly a metre, and a shallow external fosse, that is, a ditch, running along the north-western to northern arc. The interior, however, has been compromised. Field-boundary clearance debris has been dumped inside the enclosure over time, leaving the surface uneven and obscuring whatever features might otherwise be readable underfoot. Similar material has been piled just outside the enclosure at both the south-east and south-west. The site was recorded by Denis Power and uploaded to the archaeological inventory in August 2011.

The fort sits in mixed pasture and marshland, with the Glashanaskree River visible to the south, and the damp, low-lying terrain gives some sense of why a slight elevation, even one no more than a metre above the surrounding ground, would have mattered to whoever enclosed this place. Access is not straightforward; the overgrowth is the main obstacle, and any visit in summer, when vegetation is at its thickest, will make even the outer bank hard to trace. Late autumn or winter, when the brambles die back, offers the clearest chance of reading the earthwork's outline. Patience, and a decent pair of boots, will help more than anything else.