It sits on the map, named and numbered, but largely unexplained.

Enclosures of this kind are among the most common and most varied features of the Irish landscape. The term covers everything from prehistoric ring-forts and early medieval farmsteads to later ecclesiastical or agricultural boundaries, and without further detail it is genuinely difficult to say which tradition this particular site belongs to. Creegh itself is a small rural townland in west Clare, a part of the county where the land begins to flatten towards the Shannon estuary and where earthworks of many periods have survived in the improved pasture and rough ground that characterise the area. The enclosure is recorded, it exists, and beyond that the particulars remain, for now, out of reach.