Enclosures of this kind appear throughout Ireland in considerable numbers, ranging from early medieval farmsteads to prehistoric ceremonial spaces, and their anonymity in the landscape is part of what makes them interesting. They are the background noise of Irish archaeology, present in nearly every parish, seldom discussed.

Errew itself is a place of some historical depth. The peninsula that juts into Lough Conn nearby was home to Errew Abbey, an Augustinian foundation dating to the thirteenth century, and the wider area has been inhabited and worked for a very long time. An enclosure in this kind of landscape could plausibly relate to any number of periods or purposes, monastic enclosure, earlier field boundary, or something older still. Without more detailed survey information, the specific character of this particular site remains genuinely open, which is itself a fair reflection of how much of the Irish countryside still sits at the edge of what has been fully documented and understood.