The one at Bredagh in County Galway is a different matter. Spread across level grassland, it has been worn down to the point where only fragments of its original form remain legible, and a visitor without a trained eye could walk the ground without registering that anything of significance lay underfoot.

The site is a rath, the most common type of ringfort in Ireland, typically a circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, used as a farmstead during the early medieval period. At Bredagh, the enclosure measures roughly 37 metres in diameter. A bank still stands along the eastern arc, and from the south around to the west the ground drops away in a scarp, a natural-looking slope that is in fact the remnant of the enclosing element. Elsewhere, the surface has been entirely lost. An external fosse, the ditch that would originally have run outside the bank, survives along the south-western to western stretch. Modern field boundaries cut across the monument at several points, which accounts in part for the fragmented condition of what remains. Also associated with the site is a cashel-and-bank grouping recorded under a separate monument number, suggesting the immediate area holds further traces of early activity beneath the ordinary-looking farmland.