Enclosures of this kind are among the most common yet most enigmatic monument types in the Irish landscape. The term covers a broad range of features, from the circular earthen banks of ring forts, which served as enclosed farmsteads during the early medieval period, to prehistoric ceremonial enclosures whose original purposes are still debated. Without more specific information to hand, the Knockanore example sits quietly in the record, a shape in the ground that has been noticed and counted but not yet fully described in any publicly accessible form.