The curve extends roughly seven metres, and the stones sit quietly in the landscape without the obvious drama of a chamber tomb or passage grave, which makes the site easy to overlook and, in some ways, harder to read.

The antiquarian George Petrie, writing in notes later published by Margaret Stokes in 1867, recorded that the site had already been disturbed by 1837, at which point it still comprised around twenty stones, though without any surviving chamber. Whatever the original arrangement was, the intervention reduced it substantially. Carrowmore 47, as the site is catalogued, sits within a wider megalithic landscape that has attracted scholarly attention for generations, with researchers including Michael Herity and Stefan Bergh examining the grouping of monuments across the area. The loss of fifteen or so stones between the early nineteenth century and the present day is not unusual for a region where field clearance, agriculture, and general interference with prehistoric sites was common long before formal protections existed.