It belongs to a category of monument that appears throughout Ireland, often as a roughly circular bank and ditch marking out a defended or ceremonial space, sometimes prehistoric, sometimes early medieval, sometimes both in succession. The enclosure at Oughtagh has been recorded and given a place in the national inventory of monuments, which means somebody, at some point, identified it as significant enough to protect. What it looks like on the ground, how large it is, and what it may have been used for remain details that have not yet been made publicly available.