The one at Ballygarvey in County Westmeath is a more ambiguous proposition. It sits on a slight natural rise above poorly drained ground, commanding reasonable views of the surrounding countryside, yet the monument itself has been so thoroughly softened by time and interference that it takes some attention to read it at all.

What survives is a roughly circular area approximately 29 metres across from north to south, bounded by a very low earth and stone bank and an external fosse, the term for a defensive ditch, both of which are only clearly traceable from the south-west round to the north-west. From the south-east to the south, the enclosing bank has been levelled entirely, and no entrance feature remains anywhere on the circuit. The interior is uneven, with stones and small boulders breaking the surface, and it has been cut through by a number of shallow later trenches, most likely the work of farmers attempting to drain the waterlogged ground. More puzzling is a bank and fosse that bisects the interior on a north-east to south-west alignment, dividing the enclosed space into two distinct areas. Whether this internal division is contemporary with the original construction or represents a later phase of activity is not recorded. Roughly 90 metres to the south-south-east lies a second ringfort, suggesting that this part of Westmeath was once a more densely settled early medieval landscape than its present quiet appearance might imply.