What makes it quietly anomalous is its relationship to the enclosure around it. Rather than sitting at the centre or commanding a prominent position, it occupies a corner of the ringfort, tucked into the arc of the surrounding bank as though secondary to it, or perhaps deliberately sheltered by it.

The enclosure itself is a rath, the Irish term for a roughly circular earthen ringfort, typically dating to the early medieval period, roughly the sixth to the twelfth centuries, and most often associated with the farmsteads of middling landowners. Stone buildings within or adjacent to raths are not unknown, but they are far less common than the timber structures that once stood inside most of these enclosures. The Camcuill building, with its substantial footprint, raises questions that the ground alone cannot fully answer: whether it was domestic, agricultural, or served some other purpose within the life of the settlement that once occupied this corner of Sligo.