It sits in the landscape, noted and numbered, yet largely undescribed in any accessible form.

Enclosures of this kind are among the most common and most varied features of the Irish countryside. The term covers everything from prehistoric ringforts, which were enclosed farmsteads typically bounded by an earthen bank and ditch, to ecclesiastical enclosures marking the boundaries of early Christian settlements, to later agricultural or defensive boundaries. The townland name Rathfolan offers a small clue: "rath" is the Irish word for a ringfort, suggesting that enclosed settlement activity in this area has deep roots, perhaps reaching back well over a thousand years. Whether the recorded enclosure is the feature that gave the townland its name, or a separate and distinct monument altogether, is precisely the kind of question that makes sites like this quietly compelling.