Visit today, however, and there is nothing visible on the ground to confirm it was ever there. No boundary, no stones, no trace of the outline. The land has simply absorbed it.

The history of the area was documented by the scholar Liam Price, who noted in 1967 that the land was leased to a man named Robert Hassells in 1685. Hassells named his house Shelton, a name that eventually transferred to the townland itself. Price also identified the site more precisely: an estate map of the Shelton lands names the hill here as Whitson Hill, and it is on this elevation that the graveyard was recorded. Price went further, suggesting that the site may also have been home to a church, which would make the enclosure not merely a burial ground but the footprint of an entire small ecclesiastical complex, now gone without visible trace above ground. The rectangular shape noted on the OS map would be consistent with an early church enclosure, a form of boundary, often earthen or stone-built, that commonly surrounded both a church and its associated burials in medieval Ireland.