Though no visible remains exist today, this medieval earthwork once stood as a rectangular fortification, likely serving as a defended homestead for a local family during the Anglo-Norman period. The site’s strategic position offered clear views across the landscape, with bogland visible roughly 700 metres to the southwest and northwest, whilst another ringfort lies 190 metres to the south-southeast, suggesting this area held considerable importance for centuries.

Historical maps reveal what time and agriculture have since erased. The 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map depicts the site as a rectangular earthwork with a limekiln immediately to the east, indicating the land’s continued agricultural use well into the 19th century. Even earlier documentation exists; an estate map from 1781 shows the monument’s outline, providing valuable evidence of its original form. Today, the field fence marking the townland boundary with Mayne curves around the eastern edge of where the monument once stood, preserving at least the memory of its footprint in the modern landscape.

Whilst the earthwork itself has been completely levelled, modern technology offers glimpses of the past. Digital aerial photography from November 2011 captured faint outlines of the former structure, revealing patterns invisible from ground level. These ghost marks in the grass and soil tell the story of a fortified site that once controlled this modest hillock, part of a wider network of medieval settlements that shaped the Westmeath countryside. The proximity to both water resources and other defensive structures suggests this wasn’t an isolated outpost but rather one piece in a larger puzzle of territorial control and agricultural management that characterised medieval Ireland.