It survives on maps and in old aerial photography, but stand in the field today and there is nothing to see; the ground has been levelled, old boundaries removed, and new ones drawn in their place. What remains is a name, a shape on paper, and a brief note made by a surveyor nearly two centuries ago.

In 1840, the antiquarian John O'Donovan recorded the place in the Ordnance Survey Namebooks as the site of ancient fences forming an enclosure known as Bally-na-scullog. The name itself is suggestive: "scullog" derives from the Irish word for a small farmer or tiller of the soil, and "bally" from "baile", meaning a settlement or townland. O'Donovan also noted the traces of two ancient roads converging on the site, one running along the western side of the townland from the south-west corner, and another heading north-east through its centre. The enclosure sits to the north-north-east of a turlough, which is a seasonal lake that fills from groundwater in winter and drains away in summer, a feature common in limestone lowlands. By 1974, when aerial photographs were taken, the roughly square outline was still legible from the air. Since then, agricultural improvement has removed even that trace at ground level, leaving the six-inch Ordnance Survey map as one of the few places where the shape of Bally-na-scullog can still be made out.