Enclosures of this kind, broad terms covering anything from ringforts to field boundaries to ecclesiastical precincts defined by an earthen or stone perimeter, are among the most numerous and least celebrated monument types in Ireland. They were built across many centuries, by farming communities, by monastic settlements, by local lords, and their purposes varied as widely as their builders. The name Parkboy itself, likely derived from the Irish, hints at a landscape long shaped by human use, though what precisely was enclosed here, and by whom, remains for the moment undocumented in any publicly available form.