That gap is itself a kind of statement. Across rural Ireland, burial grounds like this one often predate the parishes that eventually absorbed them, and in some cases predate Christianity altogether. Without further documentation, it is difficult to say with certainty what period or tradition this particular site belongs to.

Fahy is a small townland in the west of Mayo, a county where ancient burial grounds frequently occupy sites of considerable age, some associated with early medieval ecclesiastical enclosures, others with pre-Christian practice, and still others with the informal, unsanctioned burials of unbaptised infants in grounds known as cillíní. These last were places set apart from consecrated earth, used well into the twentieth century in parts of Connacht, and they carry a particular quietness to them, neither celebrated nor entirely forgotten. Whether this site fits any of those categories is not currently documented in any detail available to the general public.