Clare is already one of the more archaeologically crowded counties in Ireland, home to the Burren's celebrated concentration of portal tombs, wedge tombs, and stone forts, so the presence of another megalithic monument might seem unremarkable. What is quietly striking about this particular site is how thoroughly it has slipped through the documentary net, known to exist, recorded and assigned a monument number, yet formally undescribed in any publicly accessible form.

Megalithic structures is a broad category, covering anything from portal tombs, the large capstone-and-upright arrangements most people picture when they think of prehistoric monuments, to wedge tombs, court tombs, and boulder burials. Clare's geology, particularly the exposed limestone pavements of the Burren, has preserved an unusual number of these Neolithic and Bronze Age constructions, some dating back four or five thousand years. Ballysheen Beg lies in this same county, though without further detail it is not possible to say which type of megalith this is, when it was built, or by whom, at least not from what has been formally published. The site exists in a kind of archival limbo, acknowledged but not yet described in any open record.