When the site was inspected in 1990, only a single headstone from the seventeenth century could be found, yet earlier documentary sources tell a different story entirely.

The Ordnance Survey Name Books, compiled in the nineteenth century as part of a systematic effort to record place names and local antiquities across Ireland, noted several headstones from both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries at this location. By 1990, nearly all of them had apparently vanished, leaving just the one survivor. Whether the others were lost to weathering, removal, or simply became too worn to identify with certainty is not recorded. It is the kind of quiet attrition that affects many old graveyards, where the material evidence of earlier centuries gradually thins out, and what the written record once described no longer matches what the ground can show.