That absence is itself a kind of fact. Clare is well known for its concentration of prehistoric monuments, from the wedge tombs that dot the Burren limestone to the portal tombs of its northern parishes, and yet this particular structure remains, for now, a name on a map without a story attached to it.

Megalithic structures is a broad category, covering anything from the large passage tombs of the Neolithic period, built roughly five thousand years ago, to the wedge tombs that were constructed somewhat later and are especially numerous in Munster. Without further detail it is not possible to say which tradition Drumullan's monument belongs to, or what condition it survives in. Clare alone contains dozens of such sites in varying states of preservation, some reduced to a single displaced capstone, others still holding their original form well enough to suggest the effort that went into their construction.