The one at Dromloughra in north Kerry does almost the opposite. What remains is an oval raised area, barely 0.7 metres above the land around it, and even that modest elevation disappears entirely along a stretch of roughly 22 metres on the south-east to east side. It takes a moment of deliberate attention to read it as a structure at all.

A rath, to use the Irish term, was typically a circular or oval enclosure defined by an earthen bank and an outer ditch, serving as a farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly from the fifth to the twelfth century. This example at Dromloughra was originally univallate, meaning it had a single such bank rather than the two or three concentric rings found at more elaborate sites. That bank has now been very much levelled, leaving only the faint oval profile in the ground. On the south-west exterior, a shallow fosse, the accompanying ditch that once reinforced the enclosure, can still be traced for about 11 metres; it measures roughly 2 metres wide and just 0.4 metres deep. The internal dimensions, around 28.7 metres north to south and approximately 44 metres east to west, suggest a reasonably substantial enclosure in its time, large enough to have sheltered a family farmstead and its associated structures. The site was documented as part of the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995 by C. Toal.