It is the kind of monument that appears on maps and in monument registers without much elaboration, a feature recognised as archaeologically significant but not yet fully described in any publicly available form.

Enclosures of this type are among the most common, and most varied, archaeological features in the Irish countryside. The term covers a broad range of sites, from the circular earthen banks of ringforts, which served as farmsteads during the early medieval period, to more irregular enclosures of uncertain date and function. Some are defined by earthen banks and ditches, others by stone walls, and their age can range from the Bronze Age through to the post-medieval period. Without more specific information about the Rahena More example, it is difficult to say where on that spectrum this particular site falls, or what its original purpose may have been. Clare as a county contains a considerable density of such monuments, scattered across its drumlin fields, limestone plains, and low boggy ground, many of them surviving as crop marks or faint earthworks rather than standing structures.