A field in County Limerick, sloping gently toward the north-north-east, holds no visible trace of a monument that appeared clearly on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1841, recorded as a circular enclosure roughly 45 metres in diameter. The site is gone, levelled sometime in the twentieth century, and the pasture that replaced it gives no indication that anything once stood there at all.

What was removed in 1952, according to the landowner, was a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular earthen enclosure, typically defined by a bank and ditch, that served as a farmstead during the early medieval period. But this particular example had accumulated a second, more sombre identity over the centuries. Locally it was known as "the killeen", a word used across Ireland to describe informal burial grounds, often associated with unbaptised children or, as in this case, with Famine dead. The community appears to have used the interior of the old enclosure as a burial ground during or after the Great Famine of the 1840s, layering one kind of history over another. When the site was levelled, a report filed with the National Museum of Ireland noted the discovery of a cist containing a skeleton. A cist is a small stone-lined grave, a burial type that can date anywhere from the Bronze Age to the early medieval period, which raises quiet questions about how many different eras of use this single field had witnessed before the bulldozer arrived.

Because the earthworks are entirely gone, there is no monument to inspect, no bank to walk, and no official access point. The site is recorded in the national archaeological inventory under reference LI019-093001-, and its interest now lies almost entirely in the documentary and oral record rather than anything physical. For anyone researching Famine burial sites in Limerick, or tracking the long afterlives of early medieval enclosures, the file compiled by Denis Power represents the more useful visit. The field at Moig is a pastoral blank, ordinary-looking in every respect, which makes the layered record of what it once contained all the more worth knowing about.