Wedge tombs are the most numerous of Ireland's megalithic tomb types, built during the late Neolithic and into the early Bronze Age, roughly between 2500 and 2000 BC. They take their name from their distinctive shape: a roofed gallery of large stones that tapers in both height and width from front to back, typically oriented to face the west or south-west. Most were used for communal burial, and many show evidence of repeated use over long periods. That one survives at Stripe, a quiet rural townland in Mayo, is itself a small archaeological fact worth noting.

Beyond its classification and location, very little can be said with confidence about this particular structure. The notes available for it are essentially silent on specifics, which places it among a number of Irish megalithic sites that are recorded in name but not yet fully documented in accessible form. Mayo has a significant concentration of prehistoric monuments, and wedge tombs in the west of Ireland are often found on upland ground or near the edges of bog, placed deliberately in the open rather than concealed by topography. Whether the Stripe example follows that pattern, what condition it is in, or how many of its original stones remain, is not currently a matter of public record.