It exists as a classified monument, meaning it has been formally identified and assigned a record, yet the substance of that record has not been made available in any accessible form. What it looks like on the ground, when it was built, and by whom are questions that current public documentation cannot answer.

Enclosures of this kind in County Clare can take many forms. Some are the earthen ring-forts, known as raths or ringforts, that were the farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, their circular banks and ditches enclosing a household and its outbuildings. Others are earlier, later, or serve entirely different purposes, from ecclesiastical enclosures marking the boundaries of early monastic sites to the remains of field systems long since absorbed into the landscape. Without further detail attached to this particular site, it is not possible to say which category Cloonomra falls into, or whether it fits neatly into any category at all. The townland name itself, derived from the Irish, hints at a place with its own local character, but the enclosure within it remains, for now, a shape in the ground rather than a story with a beginning.