In a pasture at Cloghboola More, the ground dips gently into a saucer-shaped hollow roughly 28 metres across, and along the eastern and southeastern edge a low rise in the soil traces the ghost of a bank that no longer properly exists. To an untrained eye it reads as nothing much. To anyone who knows what to look for, it marks where a rath once stood, a type of circular earthwork enclosure used during the early medieval period, typically as a defended farmstead, consisting of a raised bank and an outer ditch called a fosse.

The site appears on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps from both 1904 and 1938, recorded there as a hachured circular enclosure of around 20 metres in diameter, complete with its external fosse still visible enough to map. At some point between that last survey and the present, the structure was levelled, the bank pushed flat, the ditch filled in or silted over, leaving only the subtlest impression in the ground. The discrepancy between the 20-metre diameter shown on the old maps and the 28-metre spread of the current depression likely reflects the way levelling spreads and softens earthworks rather than erasing them cleanly. Thousands of ringforts survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation, but a significant number have been lost to agriculture over the centuries, and this one in Co. Cork sits somewhere in that grey zone between surviving and vanished.