The one at Ballinastoe in County Wicklow is considerably more reticent. What survives is a low, subrectangular platform, measuring roughly 26 metres northwest to southeast and 14 metres the other way, rising only about half a metre above the surrounding ground. A field boundary now defines its northeastern edge, while the faintest traces of a bank persist at the northwest and southeast ends. It is the kind of site that rewards patience and a low sun angle rather than a casual glance.

What makes this site particularly interesting is a discrepancy between what is visible on the ground today and what the early cartographers recorded. The 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows the site hachured as two separate, possibly conjoined, circular enclosures, suggesting that in the nineteenth century the remains were either more legible or differently interpreted. The shift from two circular forms on the map to a single subrectangular platform on the ground raises questions that the surviving evidence cannot fully answer. It may reflect later agricultural disturbance, or it may be that the original surveyors were working from traces that have since eroded further. Either way, the site sits on the level summit of a low natural rise, a position typical of early medieval enclosed settlements, where a slight elevation would have offered both drainage and visibility across the surrounding landscape.