Enclosures of this kind are among the most common and yet most ambiguous features of the Irish countryside. The term covers a broad range of earthworks, from the circular raised raths and ring-forts that once served as defended farmsteads in the early medieval period, to later ecclesiastical enclosures marking the boundaries of early monastic or church sites. Without further detail it is difficult to say precisely what this one represents, which is itself a quiet curiosity, a feature significant enough to be formally recorded, but not yet fully drawn into the documented record.

Kilmurry as a place-name derives from the Irish Cill Muire, meaning the church of Mary, which suggests the area has associations with early Christian settlement. County Kilkenny has a particularly dense concentration of early medieval ecclesiastical and secular enclosures, many of them surviving as low earthen banks or as cropmarks visible only from the air. The presence of a named enclosure here fits that broader pattern, and the Marian dedication in the townland name raises the possibility, though no more than that, of an early religious dimension to the site.