Wedge tombs, so called because their chambers taper in both height and width from front to back, are the most numerous class of megalithic monument in Ireland, and they belong broadly to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, a period roughly spanning the third and second millennia BC. This one in County Sligo sits somewhat apart from the more celebrated concentrations of megalithic architecture in the region, which is part of what makes it worth noting.

The principal record of this tomb comes from Seán Ó Nualláin's systematic survey of Sligo's megalithic monuments, published in 1989 as the fifth volume of the Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Ó Nualláin's work catalogued the county's prehistoric tombs with considerable thoroughness, and Carrowconor appears within that corpus as a documented, if little-publicised, example of the wedge tomb tradition. Beyond what that survey preserves, the specific structural details and condition of the monument at the time of recording are contained in the linked documentation, meaning the tomb's dimensions, orientation, and state of preservation are best understood through that source rather than reconstructed here.