The road has done what roads so often do to ancient features: it has sliced the thing in two, and the northern half has been lost entirely, levelled at some point during construction or subsequent maintenance.

The site carries a degree of genuine uncertainty. A field inspection was carried out and documented, but the southern portion of the feature remained inaccessible at the time, leaving the record inconclusive. Because of this, the classification was revised to 'possible enclosure', a cautious designation that reflects how much of the archaeological record across Ireland depends on what survives above ground and what can be physically reached. Enclosures are among the most common monument types in Kerry and across the country, yet individual examples can be frustratingly difficult to verify when vegetation, land use, or infrastructure gets in the way. What survives at Ballygamboon may be a substantial earthen bank curving through a field to the south of the road, or it may be very little at all.