This example in Shrone, County Kerry, occupies a gentle south-facing slope in undulating pasture, its presence announced less by dramatic earthworks than by a quietly persistent bank of earth and stone, overgrown now, tracing a circle roughly 52 metres across. A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, was typically a farmstead of the early medieval period, enclosed by one or more banks and ditches to define a household's space and perhaps deter casual livestock raiding. The bank here runs to about 5.2 metres wide, with an internal and external height of around 1.1 metres each, modest by some standards but coherent enough that the circular form still reads clearly in the field.

What makes the Shrone rath quietly interesting is the degree to which the modern agricultural landscape has grown up around and against it rather than erasing it. Field boundaries abut the bank on both the western and southern arcs, one running north to south along the outside of the west, another running east to west along the south, with a lane sitting just beyond it. The old enclosure and the newer divisions of the land have reached an accommodation, each borrowing from the other's lines. Breaks in the bank appear at the northeast, southwest, and east-southeast, though only the gap at the north is considered a likely original entrance, at about 4 metres wide. Perhaps most intriguing is a subrectangular feature visible on the 1897 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, marked with hachures inside the southern arc of the interior. Its function is unclear, but its presence suggests the enclosed space was used in ways that left a traceable footprint, even if the detail has not survived into the present.