Enclosures of this kind are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape, ranging from prehistoric ringforts, which were essentially enclosed farmsteads with an earthen bank and ditch, to later ecclesiastical or pastoral boundaries, and the difficulty is often not in finding them but in knowing what you are looking at once you do.

Breahig itself is a small rural townland, and the enclosure it contains remains, for now, a site whose particulars are not yet in wide circulation. Kerry is unusually dense with ancient field monuments, a consequence of its relatively low level of intensive arable farming over the centuries, which left earthworks intact that were ploughed away elsewhere. Without further documentation it is not possible to say whether this enclosure is early medieval, prehistoric, or something else entirely, nor whether it survives as an earthwork, a cropmark, or a spread of stone. It exists in the record as a known presence, a named and mapped thing, but one still waiting for its story to be properly told.