The graveyard attached to the medieval church here left no visible trace at ground level, and when the Ordnance Survey mapped the area in 1843, and again in the revised edition of 1904 to 1905, neither survey recorded it at all. It had, by then, ceased to exist in any practical sense that a cartographer might note.

The Ordnance Survey Letters, compiled in the nineteenth century as part of the broader project to document Ireland's place names and antiquities, recorded the situation with a directness that sits somewhere between the clinical and the darkly comic. The graveyard, the account states, was tilled and producing cabbages and turnips, the human bodies having been "resolved into their ultimate (component) elements", a phrase attributed to Flanagan writing in 1930. The associated church, Garryntemple, stands on a natural hillock in gently undulating pastureland, with the land falling away gradually to the south-west. A small area of quarrying lies just to the north, now grassed over, suggesting the site saw various kinds of use and disturbance across the centuries. What the precise history of the graveyard's conversion to farmland was, and when it happened, is not recorded, but the Ordnance Survey observers found nothing left to see and said so plainly.