It sits in that particular category of Irish field archaeology: present on maps, assigned a monument number, but otherwise waiting. An enclosure, in this context, is simply a defined area bounded by a bank, ditch, wall, or some combination of these, and such features appear across Ireland in forms ranging from prehistoric ringforts to early medieval farmsteads. Without further detail, it is impossible to say which tradition this one belongs to.

The townland name Drumneen More derives from the Irish, with "druim" referring to a ridge or long low hill, a topographical clue that places the site in the gently undulating landscape typical of interior Mayo. Enclosures of this kind were often positioned with a practical eye, on elevated ground or at the edge of cultivable land, though whether that holds here remains unconfirmed. Mayo has no shortage of such features scattered across its townlands, many of them unexcavated and known only from aerial survey or surface inspection, their original function, date, and occupants a matter of inference rather than record.