Enclosures of this kind are among the most common yet least understood monument types in the Irish landscape. The term covers a broad range of features, from the circular earthen banks of a ringfort, which would have enclosed a farmstead during the early medieval period, to more ambiguous boundary ditches whose purpose and date remain unclear without excavation. What sits at Rathfolan belongs to this category of quietly unresolved places, noted on the archaeological record but not yet accompanied by the detail that would tell you who built it, when, or why.