That bare fact, an ancient boundary drawn in stone or earthwork by people whose names and intentions are long gone, is very nearly all that can be said about it with confidence. The site is formally recorded as a monument, which means at some point a surveyor noted its existence and logged it, but the detailed record has not yet been made publicly available. The enclosure sits, for now, in a kind of archival limbo.

Enclosures are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape, and among the most varied. The term covers everything from the circular earthen ringforts that farmers ploughed around for centuries out of superstition or respect, to small ecclesiastical enclosures marking the boundary of an early Christian settlement, to simple agricultural boundaries of uncertain date. Kerry, a county of considerable archaeological density, has examples of most of these types scattered across its peninsulas and uplands. Without the full record for Kealgorm, it is not possible to say which tradition this particular enclosure belongs to, or how legible it remains on the ground today.

What can be said is that Kealgorm itself is a small Kerry townland, one of the thousands of such units, many of them pre-Norman in origin, that still organise the Irish countryside. The enclosure is named and counted. It has not been forgotten so much as it is waiting, with some patience, to be properly described.