The one at Moyadda More, in County Clare, is no exception to that quiet anonymity. A rath, as this type of enclosure is known in Irish, typically consists of a roughly circular area defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches, and was most likely used as a defended farmstead during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They were the ordinary places of ordinary lives, which is precisely what makes them easy to overlook.

Clare is particularly well supplied with such monuments, partly because its landscape, ranging from the limestone plateau of the Burren to lower-lying agricultural ground, preserved earthworks that elsewhere were ploughed away or built over. The townland name Moyadda More is likely derived from the Irish, with the element "mór" meaning large or great, suggesting a place of some local significance in earlier naming traditions. Beyond the classification of the monument and its county, the surviving record for this particular site is thin, and it would be unwise to embroider further without firmer ground to stand on. What can be said is that its presence in the landscape places it within a network of early medieval settlement that once made Clare one of the more densely farmed and politically complex regions in Munster.