It sits in that curious category of Irish field monuments that are known to exist, given a name and a number, but whose story remains effectively locked away.

Enclosures of this kind are among the most common, and most varied, monument types in the Irish landscape. The term covers everything from the circular earthen banks of early medieval ringforts, which served as farmsteads and status markers, to much earlier prehistoric enclosures whose purposes ranged from settlement to ritual. Without more specific detail, it is impossible to say which tradition this particular example belongs to, or what period of activity it represents. Clare is a county with a dense and layered archaeological landscape, and even a modest earthwork in a small townland can carry several centuries of human use within its banks.