Enclosures of this kind, which is to say roughly circular or oval boundary features defined by an earthen bank, a ditch, or a combination of both, appear throughout Ireland in considerable numbers. They may represent the remains of a ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead common from the early medieval period onwards, or they may be older still, their origins harder to pin down without excavation. What makes the Roemore example quietly notable is simply how little has filtered through into the public record.