Known locally as Clais na Marbh, it sits at the back of a strand between Brandon village and Caher Point, and it leaves no visible trace above ground. What makes it quietly peculiar is not its age or its obscurity but its resistance to being pinned down: multiple accounts exist, each pointing to a slightly different spot, and the consensus, such as it is, leans towards the accounts being imprecise rather than the burials being plural.

The site first enters the documentary record in a vivid, unsettling way. Sometime during the first half of the nineteenth century, the sea exposed what the Ordnance Survey Name Books for Cloghane described as 'headstones, boards and bones', roughly 120 metres west of a local landmark called Carrignakilla. By 1852, the writer Hitchcock was placing the burial ground differently, describing it as lying near Brandon Quay, between two sand-banks. Local tradition, meanwhile, situates it somewhere between 300 and 400 metres west of Carrignakilla and about 500 metres south of the quay. The Irish name, Clais na Marbh, translates roughly as the trench or hollow of the dead, a designation that carries its own atmosphere without needing elaboration. No remains are now visible at any of the proposed locations, which means the sea that once revealed the site has since covered it again, or the ground simply holds its contents below the surface of the sand.