In the pastureland around Cummerstown in County Westmeath, a slight natural rise in gently undulating fields marks the site of a ringfort, one of those circular earthwork enclosures built in early medieval Ireland as defended farmsteads or places of local importance. Of the original structure, almost nothing survives above ground. A faint, tree-lined scarp visible from the west and north-west is all that remains to suggest the earthwork that once stood here.

The 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the monument as a sub-circular enclosure, roughly 48 metres north to south and 47 metres east to west. Even by that point, a laneway running north to south had already cut through the eastern side of the site. That small intrusion, compounded by agricultural activity over the intervening generations, has since reduced the fort almost entirely to a crop in the ground. The rise on which it sits still commands reasonable views across the surrounding countryside from the north-east around to the south-west, which would have made the location a considered choice for whoever established the settlement. A second ringfort survives approximately 400 metres to the south, a reminder that such sites often clustered in landscapes where conditions were favourable.