That is, officially, almost all that can be said about it with certainty. It has been recorded, assigned a monument number, and acknowledged as something worth preserving, yet the details that would normally accompany such a designation, its age, its form, who made it and why, remain unpublished for now.

Earthworks in the Irish landscape take many forms. Some are the eroded remains of ringforts, the circular enclosed farmsteads that were once the most common form of rural settlement in early medieval Ireland. Others turn out to be the banks and ditches of enclosures connected to ritual or assembly, or the collapsed outlines of field systems predating modern agriculture by centuries. In Clare especially, where the geology shifts between limestone karst, bogland, and fertile plain within short distances, earthworks can survive in surprisingly good condition simply because the ground was never worth ploughing. Without further detail, Drimmeen's earthwork sits in this broad and genuinely interesting category of the unresolved, a feature in the fields that has caught the attention of those who map such things, even if its biography has not yet been written down in any accessible form.