This one in Simonstown, County Westmeath, offers nothing of the sort. The ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead typically dating to the early medieval period and once among the most common features of the Irish landscape, has been levelled so thoroughly that by 1983 there were no surface remains visible at all. Aerial photography confirms the absence. Stand in the level pasture where it once stood and there is simply grass.

What makes the site quietly compelling is the paper trail of its disappearance. When Ordnance Survey teams mapped the area in 1837, the monument went unrecorded, and the same omission appears in the revised 25-inch edition of 1913. Yet a much earlier source captures something. An estate map drawn in 1776, now held at the National Library of Ireland, marks what appears to be the site as a double dotted circle, the kind of symbol a surveyor might use to indicate a circular earthwork or a feature of uncertain age on the ground. That tentative notation is, at this point, close to the only documentary evidence that the ringfort existed at all above ground in a recognisable form. Somewhere between that estate survey and the nineteenth-century Ordnance mapping, the monument either fell below the threshold of notice or was actively removed, most likely through agricultural improvement of the kind that quietly erased thousands of similar enclosures across the Irish midlands.