The circular earthwork that once occupied a north-west-facing slope in County Cork was levelled in 1970 during field fence clearance, leaving the land to return quietly to pasture with no visible trace of what had stood there.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths, were enclosed farmsteads typically built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They usually consisted of a circular area of raised ground surrounded by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and served as homesteads for farming families rather than as military fortifications. This particular example in Paddock townland was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, the large-scale nineteenth-century series that captured many such features before agricultural change began to erase them. Those maps are now among the principal ways of knowing that a site like this ever existed. The levelling in 1970 was not unusual for the period; across Ireland, thousands of ringforts were removed during decades of land improvement and drainage works, often without any prior archaeological investigation.