The enclosure, roughly thirty metres at its widest, shows up clearly on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, labelled plainly as 'Grave Yard', its boundaries partly straight and partly curved in the irregular way of old enclosed ground that predates formal planning. Yet a larger-scale OS town plan of the same period, covering the same area in greater detail, omits the name entirely. That kind of cartographic inconsistency is rarely accidental; it hints at a place that was known locally but sat awkwardly outside official recognition.

Burial here appears to have been unofficial, taking place through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, though how much earlier the ground may have been used is not known. The name of a nearby street offers a quiet clue: Garraunakilla, running about sixty metres to the north, derives from the Irish Garrán na Cille, meaning churchyard grove, a placename that suggests some older, remembered association with sacred or funerary ground in the area. One physical trace of those buried here has survived: a tombstone bearing the inscription 'Jane Percy, died Oct 17 1828 Aged 1yr', which was recovered and re-erected on Lower Drumbiggle Road. In 2013, a commemorative plaque was installed on Garraunakilla to mark the burial ground and acknowledge those interred there, most of whom left no named memorial at all.