At Curraghs in north Cork, a circular enclosure roughly 45 metres across once sat in level pasture, its earthen bank visible enough to be picked out with hachures by nineteenth-century surveyors. By 1969, according to local information, it had been levelled. What the maps recorded for over a century is now, for the most part, unreadable in the field.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, were the most common form of enclosed rural settlement in early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a raised circular area bounded by one or more earthen banks and an external ditch, or fosse. They served as farmsteads, enclosing a household and its immediate yard against livestock straying and, to some degree, against casual raiding. The Curraghs example may be the same fort noted by a researcher named Bowman in 1934, who recorded it on land belonging to a Mrs O'Connell and described a single rampart some seven feet high, with the interior sitting roughly three feet above the level of the surrounding field and the fosse already infilled at that point. Even then, the enclosure was eroding into the landscape. The 1842 Ordnance Survey map also marks a lime kiln on the west-north-west bank, suggesting the earthwork was being drawn on for practical purposes long before it was finally cleared. A lime kiln, in this context, would have been used to burn limestone to produce quicklime for agricultural use, and placing one against a ready-made earthen bank makes a certain pragmatic sense.

One detail resists the general erasure. A field boundary running along the western side of where the fort stood may preserve a fragment of the original bank, with a shallow fosse still faintly detectable alongside it. Around 18 metres to the west, there is a recorded possibility of a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage often associated with ringfort settlements and used for storage or concealment. Whether anything of it remains accessible or visible is not documented, but its proximity hints that the site was once more substantial than the maps alone suggest.