This one in Lurgan, on a low rise above bogland in north County Galway, has held onto something: it is still called Kelly's Fort, a name recorded by Neary as far back as 1914. The fort itself is in poor condition, a subcircular rath measuring roughly 25 metres north to south and 22.5 metres east to west, which gives a sense of how modest most of these enclosures actually were in life. A rath is an earthen ringfort, typically constructed in the early medieval period as a farmstead enclosed by one or more earthen banks and ditches, the everyday architecture of rural Ireland between roughly the fifth and twelfth centuries.

What survives here is fragmentary. A degraded scarp, essentially the eroded remnant of what was once a more pronounced earthen bank, and an external fosse, or ditch, can still be traced along the northeastern, eastern, and southern arcs of the enclosure. Elsewhere, nothing visible remains at the surface. Field banks have cut through the monument at the northeast and south-southwest, the kind of agricultural modification that has gradually dismantled many similar sites across the country over generations of land use. Inside the enclosure, a scattering of hollows records another form of damage: the ground was quarried at some point, the material taken for purposes now unknown. The combination of field boundary intrusions and quarrying means the interior has been significantly disturbed, leaving a site that requires some patience and imagination to read.