That near-absence is itself the most interesting thing about this place, because the records show there was once considerably more. What survives today is essentially a gentle rise in the ground, roughly 21 metres across, with no earthworks, no bank, and no fosse remaining at the surface.

A rath is a type of ringfort, the circular enclosed farmsteads built and occupied across Ireland from roughly the early medieval period. They were typically defined by one or more earthen banks and external ditches, called fosses, ringing a central living area. By 1837, when the Ordnance Survey first mapped this part of Westmeath at six-inch scale, the site was recorded as a circular mound enclosed by a fosse and annotated plainly as a fort. Later editions of the same map series show the monument only partially, using hachure marks, a cartographic convention indicating that the feature was already being eaten away. Quarrying had begun to reduce it. A field inspection carried out by the Office of Public Works in November 1967 described what was then still visible: a natural hillock that had been partially quarried, with its sides levelled in places to form a terrace defined by a low bank or scarp about 1.2 metres high, and no external fosse remaining. That same inspection noted a mass rock at the eastern edge of the field, a natural boulder possibly split by weathering. Mass rocks are the flat-topped stones, often natural formations, at which Catholic priests are said to have celebrated Mass covertly during the Penal Law era, when public worship was suppressed. Whether this boulder served that purpose here is unconfirmed, though its presence beside an already-eroding monument gives the field an unusually layered quality. Since 1967, the remaining earthwork has itself disappeared, leaving the hillock with no surface trace of what once stood on it.