It belongs to a category of roadside, boundary, or devotional crosses that appear throughout the Irish landscape, sometimes marking a parish boundary, sometimes the site of a patron's burial, and sometimes a station on a pattern route, the traditional circuits of prayer associated with a local saint's feast day. The specific character of this one, whether it is a simple incised stone, a more elaborate cut cross, or a weathered pillar of uncertain age, remains difficult to establish from what has survived in the accessible record.

Crosses of this kind in Connacht range from early medieval examples with interlace ornament to plain post-medieval markers erected by local communities for reasons that were rarely written down. The townland name Lenamore derives from the Irish An Léana Mhór, meaning the great wet meadow, which places the site in low-lying ground of the kind that was often significant in early Irish land division and religious geography. Without more specific detail about the form, dimensions, or inscriptions of this particular cross, it is not possible to assign it confidently to any period or tradition.