In a pasture field in Skehanagh, in the old barony of Connello Lower in County Limerick, an oval enclosure sits on a gentle east-facing slope, its defining features reduced in places to little more than a faint ripple in the ground. This is a rath, the Irish term for an earthen ringfort, the most common monument type in the Irish landscape. Thousands were built during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, typically as enclosed farmsteads for a single family and their livestock. What survives here is enough to read, but only just.

The enclosure is oval in plan, measuring approximately 34 metres north to south and 38 metres east to west. It is defined by an earthen bank accompanied by an external fosse, which is simply a ditch dug to provide the material for the bank and to reinforce the boundary. The fosse runs from the north-west around to the north-east and is roughly two metres wide and around 20 centimetres deep at survey. The bank itself tells an uneven story. Along the south-east arc it reaches its greatest external height of around 45 centimetres, while on the north-west to east side it has been almost completely levelled, likely through generations of agricultural activity. The interior, which lies under permanent pasture, slopes gently downward toward the east. The survey was compiled by Denis Power and uploaded to the record in August 2011.

The site sits in ordinary farmland and is not formally signposted or managed as a visitor attraction. Access, as with many such monuments on private agricultural land in Ireland, would require the goodwill of the landowner. For those with an interest in early medieval settlement, the value here is less visual drama and more a matter of learning to read subtle earthworks; the slight rise and fall of the ground, the way the surviving south-eastern arc retains a more definite profile while the northern section has all but disappeared into the field. A low sun, particularly in late afternoon on a clear day, casts the kind of raking light that picks out earthworks that would otherwise be invisible, and in conditions like that even a much-reduced site like this one can become legible again.