At Seskin in County Wicklow, a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically dating from the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, has been quietly losing ground to more recent agricultural life. About two-thirds of the original circuit survives, defined by an earth and stone bank some two and a half metres wide and rising between one and two and a half metres in height, its inner face still showing drystone construction. The eastern portion of the perimeter was removed when a farmyard was put up, and the western arc has been further obscured by field clearance over the years.

The enclosure measures twenty-four metres in diameter and sits on a gentle east to south-east facing slope, an orientation that would have made practical sense for a farming household seeking morning light and some shelter from prevailing westerly weather. It was already old enough to be unremarkable by the time the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced in 1838, on which it appears simply as a small enclosure, with no special notation to distinguish it from the field boundaries around it. That quiet entry on a nineteenth-century map is itself a kind of record, the site neither celebrated nor demolished at that point, just absorbed into the landscape of working land.