Court tombs take their name from the open, roughly semicircular forecourt that fronts the burial gallery, a space thought to have served some ceremonial or communal function before or alongside interment. That such a structure should endure at all, in any form, across so many millennia is quietly remarkable.

The principal published record for this tomb comes from Seán Ó Nualláin's Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, Volume V, covering County Sligo, published by the Stationery Office in Dublin in 1989. Ó Nualláin's survey was a landmark work of systematic field recording, cataloguing the distribution and condition of megalithic monuments across the county at a time when many were still poorly documented. Sligo has an unusually dense concentration of such tombs, perhaps most famously around the Carrowmore complex, but individual examples scattered through lesser-known townlands like Creevymore form part of the same broad Neolithic tradition of communal burial beneath or within stone-built chambers.