It belongs to a category of monument found widely across Ireland, typically a defined area bounded by an earthen bank, a stone wall, or a fosse, sometimes surrounding a dwelling, sometimes marking out agricultural or ritual ground. The specific form this one takes, its dimensions, its condition, and whatever clues it might offer about the people who made it, remain officially unpublished at present.

Kilcolman is a townland name that appears in several Irish counties, derived from the Irish for the church of Colmán, pointing to an early medieval ecclesiastical association that was once common enough to leave its mark on local place names long after any physical trace of a founder's presence had disappeared. Enclosures in Kerry range from the remains of ringforts, which were the fortified farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, to cashels built in dry stone, to more ambiguous earthworks whose origins and purposes are harder to pin down without excavation or detailed fieldwork. Without more specific information about this particular site, it is difficult to say which tradition it belongs to, or what period of activity it represents.