Wedge tombs, so called because their gallery tapers in both height and width from front to back, are the most recently built of the Irish megalithic traditions, generally dated to the late Neolithic and into the Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 2000 BC. They tend to face broadly westward, toward the setting sun, a pattern consistent enough across hundreds of examples to suggest deliberate orientation rather than coincidence.

The primary scholarly record for this tomb comes from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, whose survey of Clare's megalithic tombs, published in 1961 as the first volume of their national Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, systematically documented the county's prehistoric monuments at a time when many remained poorly recorded. Clare was a fitting place to begin: the county contains one of the densest groupings of wedge tombs anywhere in the country, particularly across the limestone uplands of the Burren and the areas fringing it. Cloonyconry More sits within this broader landscape of early prehistoric activity, where communities in the third and second millennia BC were shaping the land, burying their dead, and leaving structures substantial enough to survive four thousand years of weather and agriculture.