Sitting on the north-facing slope of a high ridge in County Westmeath, the earthwork is eroded to the point where aerial photography has become more reliable than walking the ground. A cropmark, the faint trace left on vegetation or soil by a buried or levelled structure, shows up on a Digital Globe aerial photograph taken in November 2011, revealing the outline of a monument that the landscape itself has largely swallowed.

When the site was described in 1976, it was still a standing monument, roughly sub-circular in shape, measuring approximately 34 metres north to south and 32 metres east to west. A ringfort, sometimes called a rath, is an enclosed farmstead of early medieval date, typically circular, bounded by an earthen bank and an external ditch called a fosse. Here, the bank survives best along the western to northern arc, while elsewhere it has been worn to a mere scarp. The fosse is visible at the north-north-east and almost imperceptible beyond that. An entrance gap roughly 2.5 metres wide and a causeway of similar width cross the fosse at the east, the standard arrangement for such enclosures. A field fence running north-east to south-west cuts across the monument at its northern end, compounding the damage. What makes the situation more striking still is that this rath is not isolated: another ringfort lies 140 metres to the north-west, and a third sits 150 metres to the south-east, suggesting a clustering of early medieval settlement across this ridge that time and agriculture have worked steadily to obscure.