The Inishkea islands were permanently inhabited until 1934, when the remaining community was evacuated to the mainland following a tragedy in which ten young men from the islands drowned during a sudden storm. That abrupt end to continuous habitation gives sites like this burial ground a particular quality: a community's dead remain on an island the living eventually left behind.

The islands have a long record of human activity, with evidence of Early Christian settlement and the remains of a monastic presence, and the burial ground on Inis Gé Thuaidh fits into a pattern common along Ireland's western island communities, where the dead were interred close to the places where they lived and fished. Unfortunately, detailed formal records specific to this burial ground have not yet been made publicly available, which means much of what might be said about its extent, age, and character remains undocumented in any accessible form. What is known is that the island itself retains the physical traces of the community that once worked it, and the burial ground is part of that broader landscape of abandonment and memory.