The word alone tells you that something was once deliberately bounded here, that people drew a line between inside and outside, and that this act of enclosure was significant enough to leave a mark on the landscape that survives to the present day.

Beyond its location in Bellaburke and its classification as an enclosure, the documentary record for this particular site is, for now, thin. Mayo is a county dense with such monuments. The landscape there was well settled in the prehistoric and early medieval periods, and earthworks of various kinds survive across its boglands, hillsides, and fields, many of them still incompletely documented. Without further detail on date, dimensions, or form, this enclosure remains something of an outline, a shape on the ground waiting for fuller description.