Enclosures of this kind are among the most common yet most varied monument types in the Irish landscape. The term covers everything from the circular earthen banks of a ringfort, a farmstead type used roughly between the early medieval period and the Norman arrival, to the ditched boundaries of early ecclesiastical sites or the low, grass-grown walls of a prehistoric settlement. Which category Drumneen's enclosure falls into is not yet publicly documented, and so the structure sits in that particular category of Irish field monuments: present on the ground, noted by surveyors, but not yet fully legible to the general reader.

Drumneen itself is a small Mayo townland, and like much of the west of Ireland its ground holds more archaeology than its quiet surface tends to suggest. The county has a dense record of enclosures, ringforts, and associated features, many of them surviving as earthworks in rough pasture that escaped the deeper disturbance of intensive tillage. Without further detail on this particular site, its date, dimensions, and condition remain open questions, ones that may reward a patient enquirer more than a casual glance at a map.