These lake dwellings appear throughout Ireland from the Bronze Age well into the medieval period, and their inaccessibility by water was precisely the point. A family or small community settled on one would have been difficult to approach without notice, surrounded by water that served as both moat and larder.

The Derrymore example sits within a county that has no shortage of such sites. Mayo's lake-riddled landscape made it particularly suited to crannog settlement, and examples have been recorded across its parishes for generations. Beyond its location in the townland of Derrymore and its classification as a crannog, the specific details of this site, its date, its dimensions, any finds or excavation history, remain unrecorded in publicly available form at present.