Officially recorded as a ringfort, a rath being the Irish term for those circular enclosures of earth or stone that once served as farmsteads and homesteads during the early medieval period, this monument on a small hillock near Clondalever may be something older and stranger altogether. The internal ground rises sharply towards the centre, particularly at the northern end, and the overall profile suggests the possible presence of both an internal fosse (a defensive or boundary ditch) and a raised mound-like interior roughly 18 metres across. That combination points less to a domestic enclosure and more to a burial barrow, the kind of funerary mound associated with prehistoric rather than early medieval activity.

The monument is sub-circular in shape, measuring approximately 26 metres across on its northeast to southwest axis, and enclosed by a poorly preserved bank of earth and stone with an entrance gap at the southwest. It sits within a coniferous plantation on a small but noticeable hillock, the surrounding land rolling away in undulating grassland. What makes the setting additionally curious is its company: another ringfort lies roughly 360 metres to the west, and a third approximately 260 metres to the east. Whether the three monuments are related in any meaningful way is not recorded, but the cluster suggests this particular rise in the Westmeath landscape attracted repeated human attention across time. The uncertain identity of this central example, neither definitively ringfort nor definitively barrow, gives it a quality that the plainer sites around it lack: the sense that the ground has not quite finished telling its story.