On a low rise in the undulating pasture of Ardnagragh, County Westmeath, an earthwork once occupied a site that would have made reasonable sense to whoever built it, elevated just enough above the surrounding land to matter. By 1971, there was already nothing left to see at ground level. The monument had been levelled, its enclosing bank and any internal scarp completely erased, leaving only a map reference where something had once stood.

What replaced it is almost bathetically practical. A silage pit, used for storing fermented fodder for livestock, was subsequently built directly in the centre of the monument's recorded location. Mounds of earth and stone have accumulated against the pit's walls, the incidental debris of agricultural use rather than any deliberate preservation. The earthwork beneath is gone in any meaningful sense, absorbed into the working fabric of a farm without ceremony or record of the transition. What the original monument was, who made it, and when, is not recoverable from what remains on site today.