The one at Glebe, outside the village of Monamolin in south County Wexford, is a triangle, its southern apex pinched to a point by converging masonry walls, giving the whole enclosure an oddly purposeful shape as it sits on a south-facing slope. That geometry alone would make it worth a second look, but the graveyard holds something older still: a small standing stone in its south-eastern corner, a solitary upright that almost certainly predates everything around it by centuries, possibly millennia.

The site is the old parish church of Monamolin, a settlement whose ecclesiastical roots run deep into early Christian Ireland. The building that stands here today is a Church of Ireland church erected in 1824, but it was built directly on the footprint of an earlier church, meaning the ground beneath it has been in continuous religious use across multiple centuries and, if the standing stone is any indication, perhaps long before Christianity arrived in the area at all. Standing stones of this kind are generally associated with prehistoric ritual or memorial use, and finding one absorbed into the fabric of a later Christian burial ground is not unusual in Ireland, where new layers of sacred meaning were often laid quietly over old ones rather than erasing them.