It appears on the national monuments record, it has a classification, and it occupies a specific point in the landscape of one of the west of Ireland's most carefully designed estates. Beyond that, the particulars are yet to be made publicly available.

An enclosure, in the archaeological sense, is a broad category covering anything from a prehistoric settlement boundary defined by a ditch and bank, to a later medieval or early modern enclosure associated with farming, ritual, or defence. Westport Demesne itself was developed around Westport House, the seat of the Browne family, later the Marquesses of Sligo, with the landscape laid out in the eighteenth century in part by the architect James Wyatt. The River Carrowbeg was widened into ornamental lakes, and the grounds were shaped to reflect the Picturesque ideals fashionable among the Anglo-Irish landowning class of the period. That a monument of older origin should survive beneath or alongside such deliberate landscaping is not unusual. Demesne walls and ornamental plantings have, across Ireland, inadvertently preserved earthworks that might otherwise have been ploughed away.