Somewhere on a west-facing slope just south of a farmyard in mid Cork, a ringfort once stood, and now does not. Its story is one of the more common tragedies in the Irish archaeological record: a site that survived for over a millennium, documented repeatedly on maps, and then erased within living memory.

A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches arranged in a circle. They are the most numerous monument type in Ireland, yet hundreds have disappeared due to agricultural clearance. This particular example measured roughly 28 metres in diameter, a modest but perfectly typical size. It appears on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps in 1842, 1903, and again in 1940, each time rendered as a hachured circular enclosure, the standard cartographic shorthand for an earthwork. That continuity across nearly a century of mapping suggests the site was reasonably well preserved well into the twentieth century. According to local information, it was levelled around 1976. No visible surface trace remains.