There are no earthworks to speak of, no stones, no ditch, no trace of any kind at surface level. The only evidence that anything is there at all comes from the air, where the enclosure reveals itself as a crop mark, the kind of ghostly outline that appears in aerial photographs when buried features affect the growth of vegetation above them. Soil disturbed by ancient ditches or banks retains moisture differently from the surrounding ground, and in dry conditions that difference shows up in the colour and height of crops overhead, drawing outlines in green and gold that would otherwise be entirely lost.

The site at Balseskin was identified from an aerial photograph held in the SMR file and noted in a personal communication from T. Condit. Beyond those bare facts, the record is thin. Circular enclosures of this kind are common across Ireland and can date from the prehistoric period through to the early medieval, when ringforts, essentially enclosed farmsteads defined by an earthen bank and ditch, were built in considerable numbers across the Irish countryside. Whether the Balseskin example belongs to that tradition or to something earlier is not recorded. What is known is that it is a large example, sitting in relatively flat agricultural land to the north of the M50 motorway and west of the N2 road. The record was compiled by David O'Connor and updated by Christine Baker, with the entry uploaded in January 2015.

There is not much to see in the conventional sense. The field gives nothing away at ground level, and a visitor making their way out to the area, which sits within the suburban and industrial fringe of north Dublin city, would find only ordinary farmland. The M50 and N2 are useful landmarks for locating the general vicinity, but the site itself has no public access, no signage, and no visible remains. Its interest lies precisely in that absence, in the fact that a significant structure once existed here and has left no mark on the landscape except the faint seasonal signature it prints onto the crops above it.