In 1999, archaeologists documented a roughly D-shaped enclosure on an east-facing slope above the valley of the Sheen River in Ballygriffin, Co. Kerry: a low drystone wall, partly grass-covered, forming a straight southern edge of around eighteen metres, with some upright stones set at right angles to the wall face and crude boulders incorporated into the southern side. A narrow entrance, just a metre wide, opened at the western end. The builders had cut into the slope on one side and built up the ground on the other to create a level interior, a modest but deliberate act of shaping the land. By 2007, there was nothing left to see. The land had been reclaimed and reseeded, and the enclosure had effectively ceased to exist as a visible feature.

What survives in the record gives just enough to suggest what the place once was, without being definitive about its age or purpose. Enclosures of this kind, defined by drystone walls and engineered to sit level within sloping ground, appear across Kerry in various forms and periods. A small rectangular stone setting near the centre of the enclosure was noted as appearing to be of relatively recent date, suggesting the site had seen more than one phase of use or attention. The broader landscape around it carries older traces: a relict field boundary sits approximately sixty metres to the west, and roughly the same distance to the south-south-west stands a wedge tomb, a type of megalithic monument typically dating to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The enclosure may have had no direct relationship to these features, but their proximity places it within a stretch of ground that people have been marking, dividing, and returning to for a very long time.

There is nothing left to visit at the site itself. The pasture has closed over whatever remained of the wall, and without specialist knowledge of the immediate terrain, there is no way to locate where the enclosure once stood. The wedge tomb to the south-south-west is a separate monument and may still be traceable in the landscape, but the enclosure belongs now entirely to the written record, a precise description of something that no longer answers to it.