The word derives from the Irish caiseal buidhe, meaning yellow stone fort, suggesting the presence of a cashel, a type of early medieval enclosure built from unmortared stone, somewhere in the landscape. That a graveyard should occupy or adjoin such a site is not unusual in an Irish context; early Christian communities frequently established burial grounds within or beside the ruins of older stone enclosures, layering the sacred onto the already significant. What makes a place like this quietly compelling is precisely that layering, the sense that the ground has been considered important across several different periods and for reasons that are no longer fully legible.

Beyond the townland name itself, documented detail about this particular burial ground is sparse. It sits within a part of Sligo that retains a scattered but genuine density of early and medieval remains, and the pattern of a graveyard attached to or associated with a cashel-type site would fit comfortably into the wider ecclesiastical geography of the west of Ireland, where small, often unenclosed burial grounds continued in use long after any associated church or chapel had vanished entirely. In many such places, the graves themselves, some marked with simple uninscribed slabs, are the only surviving indication that a community once gathered here to bury its dead.