The example at Ballinooskny in County Clare is one such site, sitting in the landscape as it has since the early medieval period, largely unremarked upon.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when constructed from earthen banks and ditches, were the standard farmstead of early medieval Ireland, built and occupied roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. A typical rath enclosed a homestead within one or more circular banks, offering a degree of protection for the family and their livestock within. They were not military fortifications in any serious sense, more a statement of permanence and a practical barrier against cattle raids and wolves. County Clare has a particularly dense scatter of them across its limestone plains and low drumlin country, and Ballinooskny, a small townland in the county, holds one such example within its boundaries. Beyond its classification as a rath and its location, the detailed record for this particular site has not yet been made publicly available, leaving its exact dimensions, condition, and any associated finds uncharacterised in the open literature for now.