It is not quite a ringfort, not quite a hillfort, and not quite anything else with a ready name. That ambiguity is precisely what makes it interesting.

The structure consists of two distinct parts that do not quite align with one another, which is itself unusual. At the summit of the hillock sits a sub-oval enclosure roughly 25 metres across at its widest point, defined by a low bank of earth and stone. Below it, wrapping around the base of the hillock, run two outer earthen banks with a fosse between them, a fosse being a defensive or boundary ditch, typically dug to reinforce the banks flanking it. If these outer banks were simply a wider version of the same enclosure, you might expect them to mirror the shape of the inner one. They do not. The gap between the inner enclosure and the outer banks varies from just 5 metres on the eastern side to as much as 33 metres on the northern side, meaning the two elements are notably off-centre relative to each other. There is a single entrance gap through the outer banks on the north side, measuring just over two metres wide. Across the intervening ground between inner and outer earthworks, faint traces of cultivation ridges run in an east-south-east to west-north-west direction, suggesting that at some point this oddly shaped space between the banks was put to agricultural use. Nearby, a ringfort lies 130 metres to the north-east and a bowl-barrow, a type of low, rounded funerary mound, sits 220 metres to the west, indicating that this hillock sits within a wider landscape that attracted human activity across different periods.

The precise function and date of the enclosure remain unresolved. Its unusual morphology, particularly the eccentric relationship between its inner and outer elements, means it does not map cleanly onto the established typologies that archaeologists use to classify Irish earthworks. It may have served a defensive purpose, a ceremonial one, or something that combined both. For now, it remains a quietly puzzling feature in an otherwise ordinary piece of Westmeath farmland.