It is a classified monument, formally recognised by the state, yet the details that would allow anyone to understand what it is, how old it might be, or what form it takes remain effectively out of reach for the ordinary curious visitor.

The townland name itself offers a small clue to local history. Glebe is an anglicisation of a term referring to land historically set aside for the maintenance of a parish clergyman, which means the landscape here has ecclesiastical associations stretching back at least to the post-Reformation period, and very possibly much further. Tombs recorded in the Irish archaeological inventory range considerably in age and type, from prehistoric megalithic structures built to house the communal dead of Neolithic communities, to early medieval grave slabs, to post-medieval funerary monuments associated with churches or estate families. Without further detail, this particular site sits somewhere in that long span, waiting to be more precisely placed within it.