Enclosures of this kind are among the most common and most quietly puzzling features of the Irish countryside. The term 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 later pastoral boundaries and ecclesiastical enclosures surrounding early church sites. Without knowing which type this one is, the classification alone is enough to suggest that the ground here was once deliberately shaped, that someone drew a boundary and meant it to hold.