Set at the south-western edge of a triangular green known as Jamesgreen, within St Rioc's graveyard, several of the upright stones marking the dead seem to have begun life as architectural fragments, repurposed from an earlier structure and pressed into service as grave markers.

The structure in question is believed to be the church of St Rioc, a building that has left no visible trace at ground level. The graveyard itself preserves the saint's name, and the reused stonework quietly signals that something more substantial once stood nearby, even if the church has been entirely swallowed by time. The practice of recycling cut stone from ruined buildings into headstones or boundary walls was not uncommon in Ireland, particularly where a local church fell out of use or collapsed and its dressed stone became a convenient and already-worked material. Here, the headstones themselves become the only surviving physical evidence of the vanished building, carrying its carved or shaped stone into a new function without anyone necessarily remarking on the substitution.