What was once a sub-rectangular structure, recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1837, has since been almost entirely levelled. The only trace remaining above ground is a narrow band of differential vegetation, roughly four metres wide, where the soil composition still reflects whatever was built and lived in here long ago. The land reads the past even when the eye cannot.

The site sits on a natural rise with open views across the surrounding countryside, a position that would have made practical sense for anyone choosing to settle or shelter here. Some 200 metres to the south-east lies a ringfort, one of the enclosed farmsteads that were common across early medieval Ireland, typically consisting of a circular earthen bank enclosing a domestic area. Within that nearby ringfort, vague traces of two rectangular hut sites have also been identified, suggesting this corner of Westmeath once held a modest cluster of related settlement activity. The hut site at Kilgar itself appears to have been a simpler, separate structure, occupying its own elevated ground rather than the interior of any enclosure.

The vegetation band that marks the site today is the kind of detail easily missed without knowing where to look. The hillock itself is set within gently undulating pasture, unremarkable from a distance, but the slight rise and the faint colour difference in the grass in the right season can hint at what the cartographers of 1837 still had reason to record.