This one near Fedamore in County Limerick has survived in spite of everything, and what remains is less a monument than an argument for looking carefully at an ordinary field. The enclosure is a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a type of circular or oval enclosed settlement built in their thousands across Ireland during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They were typically formed by one or more earthen banks with an interior living area, and they served as farmsteads for a rural population that measured status partly in the solidity of its enclosure. At Fedamore, that solidity is largely gone.

When the archaeologist O'Kelly surveyed the site in 1942 to 1943, the description recorded was already one of considerable loss. The oval platform was measurable, roughly 46 metres east to west and 55 metres north to south, but the earthen bank that would once have defined its edge had nearly vanished. A small remnant survived on the south-west side; the north side showed nothing at all. The southern end of the monument was recorded as completely obliterated, and O'Kelly noted that a cart track running nearby was a probable cause, the material of the platform likely having been quarried informally over time to surface or maintain it. There is also a noticeable step in the ground just north of the centre, dividing the platform into two unequal levels, though O'Kelly observed that the same feature ran across the wider field and may simply reflect the natural lie of the land rather than any deliberate construction. The site sits close to a second recorded monument nearby, suggesting this was not an isolated farmstead but part of a broader pattern of early settlement in the area.

Today, the enclosure is most legible not on the ground but from the air. Cropmarks of the enclosure are visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs, the buried outline of the platform showing through as differential growth in the vegetation above it, a technique that has transformed understanding of low-visibility sites across Ireland. For anyone visiting the Fedamore area, the site is on private agricultural land and any approach would require permission from the landowner. There is no signage or formal access. What a careful eye might notice at ground level is the faint unevenness of the platform itself, that slight step described by O'Kelly, though it takes some patience and a knowledge of what to look for before the landscape begins to make sense.