Court tombs are among the oldest megalithic monuments in Ireland, typically dating to the Neolithic period, around 4000 to 3500 BC. They are defined by a roofless, semicircular or oval forecourt of standing stones opening into one or more roofed burial chambers, a design thought to have facilitated communal ritual as much as burial itself. The place-name Lecarrowntemple folds together traces of different eras, the element "temple" suggesting an ecclesiastical memory grafted onto a landscape already ancient when early Christian communities arrived.

The principal scholarly record for this monument comes from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, whose Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, Volume II, covering County Mayo, was published by the Stationery Office in Dublin in 1964. De Valera and Ó Nualláin conducted systematic fieldwork across the county, cataloguing the structural details, orientations, and states of preservation of court tombs at a time when many such monuments had received little formal attention. Their Mayo volume remains a foundational reference for the region's Neolithic burial landscape, and the Lecarrowntemple tomb is among the sites they documented. Beyond their survey, the specific measurements, condition, and arrangement of this particular monument's stones are details that belong to that record rather than to general knowledge.