The ringfort at Creeve in County Westmeath survives in a fragmentary state, yet the basic geometry of what was once there is still legible if you know what you are looking at: a roughly circular enclosure about 41 metres in diameter, sitting on a low rise with a gentle south-westerly aspect.

Ringforts, sometimes called raths, are the most common monument type in the Irish landscape. They were typically enclosed farmsteads of the early medieval period, their earthen banks defining a domestic space rather than a purely defensive one. The Creeve example was recorded in 1977 as a bank best defined along its southern and western arc, where it has escaped the worst of the damage. To the north and north-east, that bank has been folded into a field boundary, making the older structure almost indistinguishable from the agricultural landscape around it. The eastern sector is gone entirely, cut through by a road, and quarrying has removed further material from the north-east to south-south-east. No trace of the original entrance survives, and the interior offers nothing visible above ground, being level and without features.