A ring barrow is a prehistoric burial monument, typically a low central mound surrounded by a circular ditch and sometimes an outer bank, and the form was in use across Ireland and Britain from the Neolithic period well into the Bronze Age. They were places of interment and, very likely, of continued ritual significance long after the original burial had taken place. That one survives at Rinecaha is, in itself, a small piece of the wider story of Clare's prehistoric settlement, even if the particular details of this example remain, for now, unrecorded in any publicly accessible form.