This one at Ballybride is more reticent. Sitting on a gently east-facing slope in County Cork, it survives as little more than a slight rise in the pasture, its roughly circular form measuring thirty metres across in both directions, with a bank no higher than thirty centimetres and a shallow external fosse, the term for the enclosing ditch that would originally have complemented the raised bank. Centuries of agricultural use have reduced it to something you might walk across without quite registering what lay beneath your feet.

Ringforts, known in Irish as raths when built primarily from earthworks rather than stone, were the standard form of enclosed farmstead in early medieval Ireland, broadly from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. They typically enclosed a family's dwelling and outbuildings, the bank and fosse serving as a boundary marker and modest defence against livestock theft. The example at Ballybride is modest even by the standards of the type, its low profile suggesting either significant erosion over the centuries or that it was never a particularly substantial construction to begin with. What makes its situation quietly interesting is the proximity of a second ringfort lying just sixty metres to the east. Paired or clustered ringforts are not unheard of in Ireland, and their relationship, whether contemporary farmsteads, a main enclosure with a subsidiary one, or settlements from different periods entirely, is rarely straightforward to determine from surface evidence alone.