The designation "architectural fragment" covers a wide range of possibilities: a carved window moulding, a decorative corbel, a section of Romanesque or Gothic stonework displaced from a church or tower house, a piece of a doorway surround. What all such fragments share is a quality of severance, of existing apart from the building that once gave them context and meaning.

Clare has a dense archaeological landscape, and fragments of this kind often surface in field boundaries, built into later farmhouses, or simply lying in the grass near the footprint of a vanished structure. Without the specific detail that would normally accompany a classified monument, the stonework at Leana remains something of an open question, its original function and date unresolved in any publicly available form.