It sits within a townland whose very name carries historical weight: "glebe" refers to land historically set aside for the support of a parish clergyman, which suggests this burial ground may once have been closely tied to a local church or ecclesiastical holding, though the precise details of that relationship remain unconfirmed.

The name Glebe points to a layer of history common across rural Ireland, where the Church of Ireland presence after the Reformation often reshaped the landscape through the allocation of glebes, creating clusters of church, rectory, and associated ground that sometimes preserved far older sacred sites beneath them. Graveyards in such locations frequently contain burials spanning several centuries, and in some cases overlie earlier medieval or early Christian activity. Whether that is true here is, at present, unknown from available sources.