It is the kind of place that appears on official lists of monuments without much else attached, a named site whose history remains, for the moment, held in archive rather than open to easy inquiry.

Leadmore is a small rural townland in Clare, a county whose interior is threaded with early ecclesiastical sites, penal-era burial grounds, and abandoned parish graveyards that predate the consolidation of Catholic worship in the nineteenth century. Many such graveyards in the west of Ireland began as the burial grounds of early medieval church foundations, sometimes continuing in use for centuries after the church itself fell out of use or disappeared entirely. Others served local communities through the Penal Laws, when formal Catholic church buildings were prohibited and informal sites took on the functions of parish life. Without more specific documentation attached to this particular site, it is not possible to say with confidence which of these histories applies here, but the pattern is common enough in Clare that either would be plausible.