The site belongs to a category of field archaeology that is both common and frequently misunderstood: an enclosure, in archaeological terms, refers to any defined area bounded by a bank, ditch, wall, or some combination of these, and such features can date from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period and beyond. They served a range of purposes, from settlement and agriculture to ritual or boundary-marking, and their quiet presence in the Irish countryside often goes unnoticed by those passing by.

Garraundarragh is a Kerry townland, and Kerry as a county has an unusually dense concentration of early field monuments, partly because its more marginal lands were never subjected to the intensive later agriculture that elsewhere destroyed or obscured such features. Without more specific documentation available at this time, the particulars of this enclosure, its dimensions, construction method, and probable date, remain to be established. What can be said is that its inclusion in the national monuments record means it has been identified and considered significant enough to warrant protection and further study. Many such enclosures in Kerry are the remnants of ringforts, the small circular farmsteads that were the dominant settlement form in early medieval Ireland, though others predate that period entirely.