What was once a ringfort, the circular earthwork enclosure that served as a farmstead or seat of local authority during early medieval Ireland, now leaves almost nothing for the eye to catch. By 1972 it had been described as almost completely levelled, and aerial photography taken in November 2011 confirmed that no surface remains were visible at all. The site endures mainly as a cartographic memory and a faint raised patch of ground.

The 1837 Ordnance Survey Fair Plan map captured it at a moment when it still had a presence: a small, roughly circular enclosure planted with trees, marked simply as a fort. At that point it sat within a landscape that already carried the marks of centuries of use, with another ringfort roughly 400 metres to the south-west and an earthwork around 340 metres to the north-east. Gartlandstown House lay less than 400 metres to the north. Sometime between that mid-nineteenth-century survey and the late twentieth century, the monument was levelled, leaving only a subtly raised sub-circular area of approximately 27 metres north to south and 29 metres east to west to suggest that something once stood here. That faint swell in the turf is, at this point, all that physically distinguishes the spot from the surrounding undulating grassland.

The location does retain one quality the ringfort's original occupants would have valued: a clear outlook north-westward over Lough Derravaragh, the long glacial lake that cuts through this part of Westmeath. Whatever the site has lost above ground, the view that made it worth occupying in the first place has not changed.