It has a classification, a map reference, and a place in the national inventory of ancient sites, but the details that would explain what it is, who built it, and when, have not yet been made available. That combination, named but unexplained, is quietly unusual in a landscape where most ancient earthworks have at least a few lines of context attached to them.

Enclosures as a category cover a broad range of structures in the Irish archaeological tradition. They can be the remains of a ringfort, a roughly circular earthen bank that once defined a farmstead in the early medieval period. They might be a ceremonial enclosure of prehistoric origin, a stock enclosure, or something harder to categorise. Without further detail specific to this site, the form and purpose of the Ben More example remains open. Ben More itself, one of the higher points in its part of Galway, would have offered defensible ground or clear sightlines, qualities that often attracted early settlement or ritual activity in the Irish landscape.