On an east-south-east-facing slope in County Cork, a ringfort once stood that measured roughly forty metres across. A ringfort, or rath, is a roughly circular earthwork enclosure, typically defined by a raised bank and ditch, used as a farmstead or defensible homestead during the early medieval period in Ireland. This one has been levelled entirely, leaving no visible surface trace. What survives instead is its cartographic ghost.

The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it clearly as a circular enclosure, though already under pressure: a north-east to south-west field fence cut straight through it, dividing what had been a unified earthwork into competing geometries of farm and archaeology. The northern arc was marked with hachures, the conventional map symbol for an earthen bank; the southern arc, presumably already diminished, was rendered only as a dotted line. Later editions of the six-inch map, from 1904 and 1936, still carried the arc of hachures to the north, suggesting some remnant persisted well into the twentieth century before disappearing altogether. Roughly 120 metres to the south-west, a second levelled enclosure once occupied the same landscape, also now gone, giving the area a former density of early medieval activity that the present field surface gives no hint of.