Boundary mounds are among the quieter categories of field monument in Ireland, raised not for burial or ceremony in any obvious sense but to fix a limit, to say that one stretch of land ended here and another began. They belong to a long tradition of using the earth itself as legal and social infrastructure, and their presence in the Irish countryside is often easy to overlook precisely because they were designed to be read by people who already knew what they were looking for.

The townland name Cloonkeenmore derives from the Irish, with "cluain" generally indicating a meadow or pasture, a naming pattern common across Connacht that points to a landscape long shaped by agriculture and grazing. Boundary features in such areas could relate to any number of territorial arrangements, from early medieval land divisions associated with Gaelic landholding to later demarcations made under plantation or estate management. Without more specific documentation attached to this particular mound, its precise date and origin remain open questions, which is itself a fairly typical situation for this class of monument. Many boundary mounds survive simply because they were useful for so long that no one had a strong reason to remove them.