The example at Doonnagurroge, in County Clare, is one such site: a rath, which is the Irish term for a ringfort built from earthworks rather than stone, typically consisting of a circular bank and ditch enclosing a domestic settlement from the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. These were farmsteads, not fortresses in any military sense, and the people who lived within them were ordinary farming families as much as minor lords.

County Clare is well furnished with such monuments, and the Burren in particular preserves them in unusual density owing to the thin soils and relative lack of later agricultural disturbance. The townland name Doonnagurroge is itself of interest, containing the Irish element "dún", a word sometimes used interchangeably with rath to describe an enclosed settlement, suggesting a long local memory of the feature in the landscape. Beyond the site's classification and location, detailed records specific to Doonnagurroge have not yet been made publicly available, which means the finer points of its dimensions, condition, and history remain to be properly documented in an accessible form.