It has been noted, catalogued, and assigned a monument number, yet the details that would normally accompany such a listing, its age, its extent, any ruined church or enclosing wall that might once have defined it, remain formally undocumented in any publicly accessible form.

Carrowkeel, a name derived from the Irish An Cheathrú Chaol, meaning the narrow quarter-land, is a townland type found across Connacht and into Clare, often marking old territorial divisions of land that predate the modern parish system. Graveyards in such locations frequently have roots in early medieval Christianity, sometimes attached to a long-vanished church or a pattern site associated with a local saint, and in other cases serving simply as the burial ground of a rural community across many generations. Without specific documentation, it is not possible to say which of these histories applies here, only that the site was considered significant enough to record as a protected monument.