The site sits within one of the largest and oldest concentrations of megalithic tombs in Ireland, a landscape dense with passage tombs and dolmens that stretch across a low limestone plateau west of Sligo town. That this particular monument has been reduced to near-nothing makes it quietly telling, a kind of photographic negative of the grander structures around it.

George Petrie, visiting in 1837 as part of the Ordnance Survey's effort to document Ireland's antiquities, recorded that the site lay south of its neighbour and that only a few stones remained. The cromleac, the capstone-bearing chamber of what would have been a dolmen, had already gone. The culprit was practical and mundane: gravel-raising. Road improvement works had displaced or removed the main structural stones, breaking apart something that had stood for thousands of years within a few seasons of navvies with carts. By 1888, the antiquarian W. G. Wood-Martin could report only two stones half buried in a pit. That description holds today. The monument is catalogued as Carrowmore 14, and its partial survival across nearly two centuries of scholarly observation at least fixes the rate and cause of its loss with unusual precision.