Somewhere within this landscape, a recorded enclosure sits quietly in the archaeological inventory, the kind of feature that can easily pass unnoticed in the field, its outline perhaps visible only as a subtle rise in the ground or a slight change in vegetation from above.

Enclosures of this type are among the most common yet most ambiguous monuments in the Irish countryside. The term covers a wide range of features, from the circular earthen raths and ringforts associated with early medieval farming settlements, to earlier prehistoric enclosures whose purpose remains less well understood. Without more specific documentation attached to the Strade example, it is difficult to assign it confidently to any particular period or function. What can be said is that the broader Strade area has been inhabited and worked for centuries, and the presence of a recorded enclosure adds another quiet layer to that long continuity of human activity in the landscape around the friary and the River Deel.