It sits on the monument register, acknowledged but undescribed, one of countless such features scattered across the Irish landscape that have been noted, mapped, and then left to wait.

Enclosures of this kind are among the most common and yet most varied monument types in Ireland. The term covers everything from the circular earthen banks of early medieval ringforts, which served as farmsteads and status markers, to prehistoric ceremonial boundaries and later field or settlement enclosures of uncertain date. Without excavation or detailed survey, it is often impossible to say which era a given enclosure belongs to, or what purpose it served. Knockafall as a placename carries a hint of earlier meaning, the Irish "cnoc" pointing to a hill or rounded height, though what fell, or who gave the second element its name, is not recorded here. The enclosure remains, for the moment, a shape on the ground and a placeholder in the record.