This one, on an east-facing slope in the undulating grassland of County Westmeath, was built with the opposite effect: the surrounding higher ground closes in on all sides, cutting off the long views. Whatever the people who lived here were doing, they were not advertising themselves to the landscape.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically defined by a raised earthen bank and an outer ditch, known as a fosse. This example measures roughly 31 metres north to south and 32 metres east to west, making it a fairly typical size for the type. The bank survives well on the south-western, western, and northern sides, though it has been worn down almost to a simple slope, or scarp, on the remaining sections. The fosse, the shallow external ditch that would originally have run around the outside of the bank, is most legible from the south-south-west around to the north-north-west. The interior tilts gently downward toward the east. The site does not stand alone: another ringfort lies approximately 90 metres to the north, and the remains of an unclassified castle sit around 120 metres to the west, suggesting that this small patch of Westmeath was occupied, in one form or another, across a long stretch of time. Post-1700 field boundaries cut across the monument at the north-west and north-east, the kind of quiet agricultural intrusion that has reshaped countless such sites across the Irish midlands.