It is not much to look at now, but the form it describes, a subcircular enclosure roughly forty metres across its east-west axis and thirty-five metres north to south, defined by an earthen bank and an external fosse (a defensive ditch dug around the perimeter), places it within a class of monument found throughout Ireland from the early medieval period onwards. These enclosures served various purposes over the centuries, from enclosed farmsteads and livestock management to sites with ritual or ceremonial significance, and their ambiguity is part of what makes them interesting.

The site at Bellaconeen is recorded as poorly preserved and extremely overgrown, which means the landscape has been doing its slow work of reclamation for some time. The enclosure lies in agricultural ground, pinched between two named watercourses, a configuration that was often deliberately chosen by early builders who valued proximity to water for practical and, in some traditions, symbolic reasons. Beyond the basic dimensions and the note of its condition, the site has not yielded more detailed documentation, which leaves open questions about its age, function, and the community that originally shaped it.