Enclosures of this kind are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape, ranging from the circular earthen ringforts of the early medieval period to later field boundaries and settlement enclosures whose precise dates and functions can be difficult to establish without excavation. What is notable about this particular example is not any dramatic peculiarity, but rather the gap between its formal existence as a classified monument and the absence of any published account of what it actually is or when it was made.