Enclosures of this kind are among the most common yet most quietly mysterious features of the Irish countryside. The term covers a wide range of structures, from ringforts, which are circular earthen banks that once enclosed farmsteads in the early medieval period, to more ambiguous boundary features whose date and purpose remain uncertain. What survives at Curramore is noted as an enclosure, which places it within that broad and ancient category of human-made boundaries, though without further detail its precise character remains elusive.