It is classified not as a site in its own right but as an annexe to a nearby rath, which is the Irish term for a roughly circular earthen enclosure, typically dating from the early medieval period and associated with farmstead settlement. Annexes of this kind were sometimes used for penning livestock or for agricultural activity that needed to be kept separate from the main domestic enclosure, and their presence can tell archaeologists a good deal about how a site was organised and used. That this one is recorded at all is itself a small act of archaeological attention.