The rath here, a ringfort of the kind built across Ireland during the early medieval period as an enclosed farmstead or high-status residence, measures only around eighteen metres in diameter, making it modest even by the standards of a monument type that was never especially grand. What makes it quietly odd is a detail in its surviving causeway: a three-metre-wide crossing over the outer fosse, the shallow defensive ditch that once ringed the bank, exists at the south-east, but there is no corresponding gap in the bank itself. The entrance, in other words, leads nowhere, or at least nowhere that the earthwork now acknowledges.

The site sits on a gentle north-north-east facing slope with open views across the undulating grassland in several directions, and a second ringfort lies only 140 metres to the south-west, suggesting this was once a reasonably busy corner of early medieval Co. Westmeath. By the time the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map was published in 1837, three houses had been built along the northern and eastern perimeter of the monument, a detail that goes some way to explaining its present condition. The earthen bank is now very poorly preserved and the fosse is only slight, its profile softened by centuries of agricultural activity. Two field fences cut across the site from different angles, one running north-west to south-east and another roughly north-north-east to south-south-west, further dividing what was once a coherent enclosure into a confusion of modern boundaries.