The name Cloghballymore derives from the Irish, broadly suggesting a place of the great stone townland, and that kind of etymological layering is often a signal that a site carries more history than its current condition might suggest.

Unfortunately, the detailed record for this particular house has not yet been made publicly available, which places it in a category of sites that are recognised as significant enough to be listed, yet remain largely opaque to the casual researcher. County Galway saw considerable country house building and rebuilding during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, often tied to the ambitions of Anglo-Irish families consolidating their estates, and houses in townlands like Cloghballymore frequently have complicated ownership histories shaped by the encumbered estates sales of the post-Famine decades and the land agitation that followed. Whether this house fits that pattern, when it was built, by whom, and what state it now stands in, are questions the available material does not yet answer.