This one in Parke, County Sligo, is different. The interior sits at roughly the same level as the pasture outside, giving the enclosure an almost understated quality, as though the people who built it were more concerned with marking a boundary than with creating a defensible platform.

A rath, to use the Irish term, is a roughly circular enclosure defined by an earthen bank, typically dating from the early medieval period and associated with farmstead settlement. This example sits on a northeast to southwest ridge in pasture, its circular footprint measuring about 30.7 metres in diameter. The enclosing bank survives in partially eroded form, running between 3.7 and 4.1 metres wide depending on where you measure it, and rising to around a metre on the interior face. A gap of 2.5 metres in the bank on the northeast side may represent the original entrance, a positioning that would be consistent with other ringforts, where the entrance frequently faces east or northeast. A second break, roughly 2 metres wide, opens on the southern side, though whether this is original or the result of later disturbance is harder to say.