Slotted among the ordinary headstones are fragments salvaged from the medieval church nearby, pieces of cut and worked stone that originally belonged to a building rather than a burial ground. The effect is quietly disorienting once you know what you are looking at: funerary markers that are, in fact, architectural offcuts, doing a second job centuries after their first one ended.

The Urban Survey of Limerick, compiled by Bradley and colleagues in 1989, recorded the fragments with some precision. Among them are window jambs, the upright sides that once framed a church window, along with mullions, the slender vertical bars that divided windows into sections, and various pieces of dressed stone, meaning stone that has been cut and shaped rather than left rough. Most striking is a column decorated with what the survey describes as a sugar-barley twist, a spiral or helical carving that would have given the original stonework a certain elegance. These pieces are recorded as coming from Galbally church, a separate site to the graveyard itself, and were repurposed, possibly as grave-markers, at some point after the church fell out of use or into ruin. The practice of reusing cut stone was extremely common across Ireland; good dressed stone was valuable, and a graveyard needed markers. The pairing made a kind of practical sense, even if the results are archaeologically layered in ways that can be easy to overlook.

Galbally graveyard is recorded under the Sites and Monuments Record reference LI049-086003-, and the church from which the fragments derive is catalogued separately as LI049-086002-. Visitors approaching the graveyard should look carefully at the markers near ground level, where the repurposed stonework tends to be most visible. The moulded and twisted column fragment in particular is worth finding; it retains enough detail to suggest the quality of the original church interior. There is nothing to announce these objects as unusual, which is part of what makes them worth a careful look.