It sits in that particular category of Irish field antiquity that is everywhere and nowhere at once: noted, mapped, and then left largely to itself.

Enclosures of this kind are among the most common yet least understood monument types in the Irish landscape. They range from the remains of early medieval ringforts, which served as defended farmsteads for a family and their livestock, to earlier ceremonial or funerary boundaries whose purpose has long been forgotten. Without more specific detail for this particular site, it is difficult to say which tradition Cloonreddan's enclosure belongs to. What can be said is that Cloonreddan, as a townland name, carries the Irish elements suggesting a marshy or low-lying meadow, the kind of ground that has been farmed continuously since at least the early medieval period, and where the circular or sub-circular boundaries of earlier occupation still occasionally push up through the grass.