A low scarp where a bank once stood, a faint arc of fosse on the north-east to south-west side, and a roughly circular absence in a Westmeath pasture. The most legible version of the monument now exists not on the ground at all, but as a cropmark visible in aerial photography, the buried outline of the earthwork expressing itself faintly through differential growth in the grass above it. That the site is most clearly seen from the sky is a reasonable measure of how much has been lost.

Ringforts, which were enclosed farmsteads typically dating from the early medieval period, were once among the most common field monuments in Ireland. This one sat on a low ridge running north-west to south-east, and when it was recorded on the 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, it appeared as a circular earthwork of roughly 22 metres in diameter, annotated simply as "Fort" on the accompanying Fair Plan. By the time anyone looked carefully at it again, in 1972, the picture had changed considerably. The monument was by then described as much disturbed, with a diameter apparently expanded to around 40 metres as the earthworks spread and degraded. The bank had been reduced almost to a scarp, surviving in fragments along the north-north-east, east, south, and south-west, while the perimeter from the south-west around through the west and north had been removed entirely. The interior fared no better: much of it had been quarried away, and the entrance cut through the scarp at the north-north-east to serve the quarry operation is still visible. A public road runs along the western edge, compounding the encroachment. What began as a modest but legible earthwork became, across less than 140 years of recorded history, a monument defined mainly by what is no longer there.