The first edition six-inch OS map of 1840 marks a "Site of Church" at Ballybrada, close to the western boundary of an adjacent graveyard. Nothing is visible at ground level today, and the weight of evidence suggests the cartographers were simply mistaken about what they were recording.

The graveyard beside this phantom church site tells a more grounded story. In 1738, a local Quaker named John Fennell set aside land on his own estate to provide a burial ground for members of the Society of Friends, the Protestant movement founded in seventeenth-century England whose plain, communal ethos extended even to how they marked death. The graves here follow the pattern found in Quaker burial grounds across Ireland: uniform stones laid out in straight, orderly rows, bearing either no inscription at all or nothing more than a family name. Elaborate epitaphs and ornamental monuments had no place in Quaker practice, and the restraint of these markers reflects that conviction. The site is documented by both Butler (2006) and Power (1908), both of whom attribute the graveyard firmly to the Quaker community, and neither source offers any evidence of a church ever having stood nearby. The "Site of Church" designation on the OS map appears to be a misreading, perhaps of the graveyard itself, or of some earlier and now-lost cartographic note.