The term enclosure, in Irish archaeological usage, covers a wide range of structures, from the circular earthen banks of a ringfort, which would have enclosed a farmstead in the early medieval period, to prehistoric ceremonial boundaries or later field enclosures of uncertain date. Without more specific detail, the precise character of this one remains open.

Ballykett is a small rural townland in Clare, a county whose limestone terrain preserves prehistoric and early historic earthworks with unusual clarity. Enclosures of various kinds dot the landscape across Munster, and Clare in particular retains a significant number of ringfort sites, many of them unexcavated and known only by their earthwork profile. The fact that this example is formally recognised as a monument indicates it has been identified in the field, most likely through aerial survey, ground inspection, or historical mapping, even if the fuller record has not yet been made widely accessible.