That much is certain. Beyond the bare fact of its existence and its coordinates in the archaeological record, almost nothing has been formally published about it, which places it among a category of monuments that are acknowledged but not yet fully described, known to exist but not yet explained.

Clare is dense with prehistoric funerary monuments, from the grand portal tombs of the Burren to humbler field-clearance cairns whose origins are harder to pin down. A "tomb" designation in the Irish archaeological record can cover a considerable range, from megalithic court tombs and wedge tombs built during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age to simpler stone-lined graves of various periods. The wedge tomb in particular is strongly associated with County Clare, which contains more of them than any other county in Ireland. Whether Sooreeny's tomb belongs to that tradition or to something else entirely remains, for the moment, an open question. The townland name itself, anglicised from Irish, hints at a landscape that has been named and used by people for a very long time, though the tomb almost certainly predates any name we now have for the place.