It has been noted and catalogued as a monument, which tells us something in itself, but the detail that would ordinarily accompany such a listing, the names, the dates, the architectural or archaeological observations, remains unavailable. That absence is not unusual for rural burial grounds in Ireland, many of which were in use long before the administrative apparatus that might have documented them came into existence, and some of which have simply outlasted the communities that once maintained them.

Ireland has thousands of such graveyards scattered across its townlands, ranging from early medieval enclosures associated with vanished churches to post-Famine plots where families buried their dead quietly and without ceremony. Some contain the remains of unbaptised children, historically interred in unconsecrated ground at the edges of parishes, in what are known as cillíní. Others mark the sites of early Christian foundations where a church has long since disappeared but the habit of burial persisted for centuries. Without the underlying record for Darrary, it is not possible to say which tradition this particular ground belongs to, or how far back its use extends. The townland name itself, Darrary, derives from the Irish doire, meaning an oak wood, suggesting a landscape that has been named and known for a very long time.