The ringfort known as the Danesfort sits on a gentle south-west-facing slope in County Wicklow, and its fate has been decided not by any single act of clearance but by the accident of where one townland ends and another begins.

A trivallate ringfort is one defended by three concentric banks and ditches, a more elaborate arrangement than the single-bank raths that are the most common type of early medieval enclosed settlement in Ireland. This example, recorded by Liam Price in 1949, has an interior diameter of around 25 metres and a total diameter of roughly 70 metres across all three circuits. The NW-SE townland boundary bisects it, and the contrast between the two halves is striking. The south-western portion, lying in Danesfort townland, has been levelled entirely. The north-eastern portion, in Fiddan townland, fared somewhat better, though not without its own losses: the outer rampart on that side was used, under a grant-aided scheme, to fill in the outer fosse, the ditch that would originally have run alongside it. Despite that, the inner banks have come through in relatively good condition, with a height of around three metres measured from the base of the fosse to the top of the central bank.