That much is certain. Beyond the bare fact of its existence in the official record, almost nothing is currently available to the public about what it looks like, how old it is, or what purpose it may have served. It sits in a peculiar limbo, recognised as a monument worthy of protection but not yet described in any accessible form.

Enclosures are among the most common, and most varied, archaeological features in the Irish landscape. The term covers everything from the circular earthen banks of prehistoric ring-forts, which served as defended farmsteads, to the ditched boundaries of early medieval ecclesiastical sites. Without specific detail, Baile na hAbha's enclosure could belong to almost any period or function. The townland name itself, meaning something close to "town of the river" in Irish, suggests a setting near water, which was a practical consideration for many early settlement types. Kerry's landscape is dense with such monuments, many of them still unexcavated and understood only from their surface form.