That much is certain. Beyond the bare fact of its existence and its coordinates on a map, the details remain locked away, undigitised, awaiting the slow work of documentation that Irish heritage bodies are steadily advancing across thousands of such sites. Enclosures of this kind are among the most common yet least understood monument types in the Irish landscape, ranging from the circular earthen raths of the early medieval period to prehistoric ring-ditches barely visible at ground level, their boundaries surviving only as cropmarks or subtle undulations in a field.