At Tubrid More in north County Kerry, there is nothing left to see. The ringfort that once stood here, a circular earthwork enclosure of the kind built across Ireland during the early medieval period as a defended farmstead or homestead, has been completely levelled. No bank, no ditch, no outline in the grass remains.

The site had already been shrinking for some time before it disappeared entirely. The Ordnance Survey mapped it as a complete circular enclosure in 1841 to 1842, but by the revised edition of 1898 only the northern through western to southern arc was still visible; the eastern portion had gone. At some point after that, the remainder was levelled altogether. Local tradition held that the fort contained a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage typically used in early medieval ringforts for storage or as a place of refuge, but no physical evidence of it has ever been recorded, and nothing of it survives either. The fort exists now only as a cartographic ghost, traceable across successive Ordnance Survey editions, and in the kind of local memory that attaches itself to places long after the places themselves have gone.