Enclosures of this kind are among the most common and least understood monument types in Ireland, ranging from early medieval farmsteads surrounded by earthen banks to prehistoric ritual spaces, and without further detail it is genuinely difficult to say which category this one falls into. That ambiguity is, in its own way, part of the story.

Kerry is unusually dense with such features. The county's topography, a mix of upland bog, coastal plain, and sheltered valleys, preserved earthworks that elsewhere were ploughed away over centuries of intensive farming. Many of these enclosures were the working cores of early Irish society, the ráth or ringfort being the standard dwelling of a farming family in the centuries between roughly 500 and 1000 AD, defined by a circular bank and ditch enclosing a domestic space. Others predate that period entirely. Anna More as a placename has not left a well-documented historical trace in what is available here, and for now the enclosure remains one of those features that registers on the map before it registers in the record.