It is listed, catalogued, assigned a monument number, and yet the details that would explain what it is, when it was built, and by whom remain effectively inaccessible to the general reader.

Slievemore itself is one of the more archaeologically dense landscapes in the west of Ireland. Its southern slopes are best known for the Deserted Village, a long street of roofless stone cottages abandoned during and after the Great Famine of the 1840s, though some structures there are considerably older. The mountain and its surrounds also carry traces of megalithic tombs, field systems, and evidence of human activity stretching back thousands of years. Any structure recorded in this landscape could belong to almost any period, from the prehistoric to the post-medieval, and its form, whether a field boundary, a hut site, a burial monument, or something else entirely, would place it within a very different context. Without the underlying documentation, even that basic question goes unanswered.