Enclosures of this kind are among the most common and yet most varied features of the Irish countryside, ranging from the circular earthen raths and ring-forts of the early medieval period to much earlier ceremonial or agricultural boundaries. Without further detail it is impossible to say precisely what Kilmoculla's enclosure represents, which is itself a kind of curiosity: a classified site whose story has not yet been told in any accessible form.

The townland name offers a small thread to pull. Kilmoculla likely derives from the Irish, incorporating "cill", meaning a church or monastic cell, suggesting an early Christian association with the area. Whether the enclosure predates, postdates, or relates to any such foundation is unknown from what currently survives in the accessible record. Clare is a county layered with prehistoric and early medieval remains, from the limestone pavements of the Burren studded with megalithic tombs, to the river plains further south scattered with ring-forts and field systems, and an unrecorded enclosure in a quiet townland fits easily into that broader, only partially understood pattern.