Within a generation or two it had vanished from subsequent editions entirely, swallowed by cultivation and quarrying until it became, in the most literal sense, a ghost in the landscape. Today, what remains is almost nothing: a slightly raised sub-circular area roughly 29 metres across, a barely-there fosse at the north-west and east-north-east, and cultivation ridges pressing across the interior from north-north-west to south-south-east, as if the land's farming history has quietly overwritten its earlier one. A section of the perimeter on the north to east-north-east arc has been quarried away altogether.

A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is one of the most common early medieval monument types in Ireland, typically a circular enclosed farmstead defined by one or more earthen banks and an accompanying fosse, which is a ditch dug to provide material for the bank. This particular example sits on a north-east facing slope of a steep hill in grassland, with open views to the north-east, a positioning that would have made practical sense for any early farming settlement concerned with drainage and outlook. What makes the location quietly extraordinary is the density of what surrounds it. A second ringfort lies just 40 metres to the north. A motte and bailey, the earthwork fortification type introduced by the Normans after the twelfth-century invasion, sits 160 metres to the south. Taghmon church and a castle lie roughly 360 and 490 metres to the west respectively. Whatever happened in this part of County Westmeath across several centuries, it happened here, in a very concentrated patch of ground.

The monument is now so degraded that it is most legible from the air. A faint crop mark, visible on a Digital Globe aerial photograph taken in November 2011, is about the clearest impression it now makes. On the ground, the fosse is barely visible and the raised interior is subtle enough to be overlooked without prior knowledge of what to look for. The townland boundary with Foxburrow runs just 25 metres to the north, marked by the road.