Walk the pasture on its gentle east-facing slope and you will find nothing to mark it: the ground has been levelled, and no surface traces remain. The only evidence that something was ever there comes from aerial photography, where the enclosure's outline still registers faintly in the landscape, revealed by subtle variations in soil or vegetation that the human eye, standing at ground level, cannot detect.

Circular enclosures of this type are common across Ireland, though their specific functions varied. Many were ringforts, the enclosed farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, while others served ceremonial or burial purposes reaching back into prehistory. Without excavation it is rarely possible to say which category a particular example belongs to, and Bellanaloob offers no visible clues. What a local survey of the Ballinrobe district, including the areas around Lough Mask and Lough Carra, recorded in 1994 amounts to little more than the fact of the enclosure's existence, detected from above and confirmed as entirely erased at ground level. That erasure is itself a kind of information: the site was levelled, most likely through centuries of agricultural activity, leaving the aerial photograph as its sole surviving witness.