The term enclosure covers a broad range of features in Irish archaeology, from the circular earthen banks of early medieval ringforts, which served as defended farmsteads, to ceremonial enclosures of far greater antiquity. Without knowing which category this one falls into, the outline on a map is still a reminder of how densely layered the Irish countryside is, and how many such features exist beyond the well-visited sites.

Derrygorman is a quiet townland in Mayo, a county whose boglands and drumlin fields have preserved archaeological features that might elsewhere have been lost to development or deep ploughing. The name Derrygorman likely derives from the Irish, with doire indicating an oak wood, though the landscape today may look quite different from whatever it was when the enclosure was first built or used. The monument has been recorded and assigned a place in the national inventory, but the detail that would allow a fuller account, its date, its dimensions, its relationship to other features nearby, remains to be more widely documented.