It sits in the landscape, noted and numbered, but largely undescribed.

Enclosures of this kind, found throughout Ireland, typically take the form of a ringfort or a comparable enclosed settlement, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. They were built across a long span of time, with many dating to the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, when they served as farmsteads for individual families or small communities. Others may be prehistoric in origin. Without further detail specific to the Ballyhannan example, it is not possible to say which category this one belongs to, how well preserved it is, or what its dimensions might be. It is, in the most literal sense, a place that has been identified but not yet fully told.