The rath at Cloghaun More in County Clare is one such site, a circular earthwork enclosure of the kind that served as a farmstead or defended homestead during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Raths, as they are sometimes called interchangeably with ringforts, typically consist of a raised, roughly circular bank of earth, sometimes doubled or tripled in particularly high-status examples, enclosing a central living area. That Clare should have examples of these is no surprise; the county is thick with them, from the limestone karst of the Burren to the lowland pastures further east.

Cloghaun More itself is a townland in Clare, and like many such places the name carries older meaning. The Irish "cloichán" generally refers to a small stone structure or stepping stones, while "mór" simply means large or great, suggesting a landscape with some notable feature that caught the attention of those who named it long ago. Beyond the presence of the rath, specific historical details about this particular site, including when it was constructed, by whom, and what survives on the ground today, are not currently available in the public record. What can be said is that a ringfort in this location would fit into a broader pattern of early medieval agricultural settlement across Clare, where such enclosures were home to farming families whose lives revolved around cattle, crops, and the social hierarchies of Gaelic Ireland.