Earthworks of this kind, a broad category covering everything from ancient enclosures and field boundaries to burial mounds and the eroded remnants of ringforts, are among the most quietly persistent features of the Irish countryside. They survive not because anyone has necessarily looked after them, but because the land around them was never quite disturbed enough to erase them entirely. Curraghkeel's example is recorded as a monument, which places it in the company of thousands of similar features across the country, most of them only partially understood.

The townland name itself offers a small clue to the character of the place. "Curragh" in Irish place names typically refers to a low-lying, marshy area or a plain, suggesting the earthwork occupies, or once occupied, ground that was neither easily farmed nor easily built upon. Such marginal land often preserved archaeological features precisely because it was left alone. Beyond that, the specific history of this particular earthwork, its date, its original function, and whoever made or used it, remains to be properly documented.