Somewhere beneath a west-facing pasture slope in Kilbryan, County Waterford, there is, or was, a graveyard. You would not know it standing there. No headstones protrude, no enclosing wall marks it off from the surrounding field, and the ground gives nothing away. The only surviving record of its existence is a faint marking on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map published in 1840, where a small D-shaped area, roughly 35 metres from northeast to southwest and 30 metres from northwest to southeast, is labelled simply "Site of Grave Yard". Even by the time those surveyors passed through, the place had apparently already slipped from active use into memory.

The site sits about 20 metres from the northern bank of an east-west stream, with a field bank forming its northwestern boundary. That D-shape pressed up against the bank is a form occasionally seen with informal or early burial grounds in Ireland, where a natural or agricultural boundary doubles as a kind of enclosure. The OS six-inch mapping of the 1830s and 1840s was remarkably thorough in recording features that local communities still recognised, even when those features were already ruinous or obscured. The fact that the cartographers noted it as a "site" rather than simply a "grave yard" suggests that, as early as 1840, there was uncertainty or distance between the living landscape and whatever lay beneath it. Whether the burials here were ecclesiastical, penal-era, or associated with an earlier settlement is not recorded.