By 1970, any surface remains had been levelled away completely, and today the site survives only as a faint cropmark, that ghostly trick of dry summers where buried ditches and banks betray themselves through differential growth in the grass above, barely legible on aerial photography.

What stood here is not entirely clear, which adds its own particular interest. The 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair Plan map labelled the feature 'Moat', depicting a small circular form inside an oval enclosure marked with a broken line. By the time the revised 25-inch OS map was produced in 1913, the record showed a small mound inside a roughly oval enclosure measuring approximately 36 metres north to south and 32 metres east to west, positioned to the south-east of Clonlost House. The site may have been a small burial mound set within a surrounding enclosure, or it may have been a motte and bailey, the form of fortification introduced to Ireland by the Normans in which an earthen mound, the motte, was topped with a timber tower and accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, the bailey. Both interpretations are plausible given the dimensions and the natural advantage of the hillock's elevation, which the notes describe as offering good views in all directions. A holy well lies roughly 65 metres to the north-west, a reminder that this small patch of Westmeath farmland once held more than one focus of local significance.