Enclosures of this kind, circular or sub-circular boundaries defined by earthen banks, ditches, or stone walls, appear throughout Ireland and can date anywhere from the Bronze Age through to the early medieval period. They served variously as farmsteads, ceremonial spaces, or defended settlements, and their presence in a townland is often the only surface trace of activity that might stretch back thousands of years. That one exists at Toormore is, at minimum, a signal that this particular patch of Mayo has a longer human story than its current appearance might suggest.