Enclosures of this kind are among the most common and yet most quietly mysterious features of the Irish countryside. The term covers a broad range of earthworks, from early medieval ringforts, which were essentially enclosed farmsteads surrounded by a bank and ditch, to later settlement sites or field boundaries whose precise origins remain uncertain. The fact that one has been mapped and assigned a monument record here tells us that something deliberate was made in this place, by someone, at some point in the past. Beyond that, the record is currently silent.