The townland of Caher holds one such site, recorded on the national monuments register but not yet fully documented in the public domain. Its name alone carries a certain weight: "caher" derives from the Irish "cathair", meaning a stone fort or enclosure, so a place called Caher containing an enclosure suggests the landscape here has been defined by this kind of structure for long enough that the settlement took its name from it.

Enclosures of this type in Clare range from early medieval ringforts, which served as enclosed farmsteads, to older prehistoric boundaries whose original function is harder to pin down. A ringfort, sometimes called a rath when built from earthen banks or a cashel when constructed in dry-stone walling, was the standard unit of rural settlement in Ireland roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, though many were built earlier and some continued in use later. That a townland in this part of Clare should carry the memory of such a structure in its very name points to how thoroughly these enclosures shaped the organisation of land, community, and identity across the country.