The ringfort that once occupied a gentle east-facing slope in County Westmeath has been so thoroughly levelled that aerial photography taken in 2011 revealed no surface remains at all, only a faint crop mark, a slightly lighter patch of vegetation roughly 30 metres across, betraying the outline of what was once a circular enclosure. Ringforts, the most common monument type in the Irish landscape, were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. This one survives only as a ghost pressed into the soil.

The site was still legible to cartographers in the nineteenth century. The 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair Plan map recorded it as a circular enclosure and labelled it plainly as a "fort", and the corresponding six-inch map of the same year rendered it with hachures, the small radiating lines surveyors used to indicate an earthwork or raised feature. After that, it disappears from the mapping record entirely, absent from all subsequent editions of the OS six-inch maps, suggesting it was levelled sometime in the decades following that first survey. Ten metres to the north runs the Royal Canal, and Ballynacarrigy Bridge lies less than 200 metres to the east. Thirty-five metres to the south sits the recorded site of a castle, which makes this corner of Westmeath a quietly layered place, a medieval ringfort and a later castle occupying the same small rise of ground above the boggy lowland.