A rath, to use the Irish term, is a circular earthen enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period and used as a farmstead or settlement. Thousands of them survive across Ireland, many still clearly visible as raised banks and ditches in the landscape. This one does not. What makes it notable is the precise, documentable story of its disappearance, caught between two maps.

When the Ordnance Survey recorded the area in 1841 and 1842, the circular enclosure was visible enough to be mapped. Even then, a road was already cutting straight through it, bisecting the earthwork in a way that suggests the rath had already lost whatever protected status or local significance might once have kept it intact. By the time the next reliable mapping of the area was produced, around 1916, it had vanished from the record entirely. No surface trace survives today. The road, presumably widened or improved at some point in the intervening decades, appears to have completed what it started, and the surrounding ground was either ploughed out or otherwise cleared. What was once a structure that had endured for perhaps a thousand years was gone within roughly seventy.