What gives it away, if anything does, is the faint outline of a bank and the ghost of a fosse, the shallow outer ditch that once reinforced it, enclosing a roughly circular space no more than twenty-two metres across. Inside, the ground tilts from southwest to northeast, and on that interior slope, faint cultivation ridges are still visible, running at an angle to the enclosure itself. The ridges hint at a longer history of use, a place that continued to be worked long after whatever purpose the enclosure originally served had passed.

The site belongs to a class of monument known as a ringfort or rath, an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically dating from roughly the fifth to the twelfth century, built by a single family or household as a combination of home, storage, and status marker. Most Irish ringforts consist of a circular earthen bank with a ditch outside it, and this one follows that basic pattern, though what remains is poorly preserved. Its setting on a natural terrace on the northeast face of a high ridge would have made practical sense to whoever chose it: slightly elevated, sheltered by the ridge behind, and with an open view northward towards Lough Derravaragh, the long glacial lake that stretches through the Westmeath landscape. A second ringfort lies roughly 160 metres to the northeast, suggesting this part of the ridge may once have supported more than one early medieval household in close proximity.