Sitting on the north-north-eastern side of a hilltop in County Westmeath, this early medieval ringfort looks out across open country to the north and west, the kind of position that would have made practical sense to whoever enclosed it, perhaps many centuries ago. Quarrying has eaten into the eastern perimeter and a portion of the interior, so the monument arrives to us already edited by later use.

A ringfort, or rath, is essentially a circular or near-circular enclosure defined by one or more earthen banks, typically built during the early medieval period in Ireland as a defended farmstead or high-status residence. This example departs slightly from the usual round form: when it was described in 1971, surveyors recorded it as subrectangular, roughly thirty-four metres across, enclosed by a substantial inner bank, a possible fosse (a defensive ditch), and an outer bank beyond that. The inner bank remains relatively well preserved, though dense overgrowth now obscures much of the area between the two banks, and a modern field fence runs along part of the circuit. Where the quarrying cut into the eastern side, there is a possible causeway at the edge of the disturbance, measured at 1.1 metres wide at the top and 5.7 metres in overall width, rising to 1.3 metres in height, which may mark where the original entrance once stood. Inside the enclosure, the ground slopes gently southward, and there are indications of a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the kind often associated with early medieval ringforts, where they served for storage or concealment.