What that structure was, nobody can say with certainty. The excavation was limited in scope, and whether the rows of holes continued beyond the area investigated was never established. But their regularity, two opposite rows of three, spaced roughly 0.2 to 0.3 metres apart with the rows themselves about 0.4 to 0.5 metres apart and running east to west at a right angle to the later wall, points to something deliberate and built.

The excavation took place immediately south of the Barrack Street gate, part of Fethard's remarkably intact circuit of medieval town walls. The pottery recovered from the same dig dates to the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century and appears to be broadly contemporary with the wall construction, which helps fix the outer limit of when the pre-wall features were buried and sealed. Fethard's town walls are among the best-preserved in Ireland, and the area around the Barrack Street gate has long been understood as a significant point in that circuit. What Moran's 1995 excavation quietly added to that picture was evidence of occupation or activity at the site before the wall was ever built, activity that left only these small, evenly spaced voids in the ground as its trace.