Enclosures of this kind are among the most common and least understood features of the Irish countryside. The term covers a broad range of structures, from the circular earthen ringforts that served as defended farmsteads during the early medieval period, to later field boundaries and ecclesiastical enclosures that marked out sacred or productive ground. What they share is the deliberate act of drawing a line around a place, of saying, in earth or stone, that this ground is set apart.

Dangan is a townland name with roots in the Irish word "daingean", meaning a fortress or stronghold, which hints that this corner of Clare may have had a longer association with enclosed or defended space than the single recorded monument alone suggests. Beyond the name and the monument's existence, the details of this particular enclosure, its date, its construction, its purpose, remain to be fully documented and made publicly available.