What survives here is the faintest trace of a scarp, a slight change in ground level where an earthwork once rose from the land, now so thoroughly levelled that only a careful eye, or a specific angle of low winter light, would catch it at all. Enclosures of this kind, roughly circular or oval earthen boundaries that once defined a farmstead, a ritual space, or an area of enclosure for animals, were once commonplace across the Irish countryside. Most have been erased by centuries of ploughing, drainage, and land improvement. What remains at Ballindooganig is, in a sense, the ghost of a ghost.

The site was recorded following a field inspection, at which point the earthwork was already reduced to this marginal visibility. A sketch plan was made, capturing the outline of what had once been a more substantial feature before the land was improved around it. Beyond that, the record is sparse. The precise date of the enclosure's original construction is unknown, as is its function, though earthwork enclosures in Kerry range from the early medieval period back into prehistory, and many went unnoticed for generations simply because the land they occupied was quietly absorbed into working farms. The very fact that a scarp remains at all suggests the underlying archaeology may not be entirely gone, only buried.