The rath at Bedford in north County Kerry is a quieter case. Barely perceptible above the surrounding ground, it survives as little more than a slight swelling in a field, its outlines softened by centuries of agricultural activity until the earthwork has become almost indistinguishable from the land around it.

What remains is a sub-circular raised area roughly 0.4 metres high, with an internal diameter of around 29 to 31 metres, enclosed by a shallow fosse and an outer bank. A fosse is simply a ditch, typically cut to define and defend the interior of the enclosure, while the outer bank, which survives to about 0.5 metres in height and 6.5 metres wide at its base, would once have reinforced that boundary. The site is classified as bivallate, meaning it originally had two encircling banks rather than one, a feature sometimes associated with higher-status settlements in early medieval Ireland. The northern and eastern sections of the outer bank have been absorbed into a modern field boundary, which is both the reason that stretch survives at all and the reason it no longer reads clearly as an ancient structure. The classification and dimensions come from the North Kerry Archaeological Survey, compiled by C. Toal and published in 1995, which documented the monument in its present, much-reduced condition.