That combination, official recognition without accompanying documentation, is more common than one might expect across rural Ireland, where centuries of burial practice have left the land marked by enclosures, headstones, and older, less legible traces that resist easy categorisation.

Clogher More sits within a county whose landscape has been shaped by an unusually long human presence. Sligo's terrain, running from Atlantic coastline to inland lough and drumlin, contains some of the densest concentrations of prehistoric and early medieval monuments in Ireland. Graveyards in such townlands can range from post-Famine burial grounds established in times of crisis, to early Christian cillíní, small unconsecrated burial plots traditionally used for unbaptised infants, to sites with roots going back further still. Without specific documentation attached to this site, it is not possible to say which of these histories applies here, or whether it encompasses more than one period of use. What is clear is that someone, at some point, considered it significant enough to record formally as part of Ireland's archaeological heritage.