That combination, physical evidence of Christian burial on one hand and a complete absence of local memory on the other, is the strange quality of this place. Most old graveyards, however overgrown or long disused, retain some trace in local tradition: a name, a story, a warning not to disturb the ground. Here, there is nothing of the kind.

The finds were recorded in 1945 and noted in the Cork and Kerry Folklore Collection of that year. They came to wider archaeological attention through J. Cuppage's survey of the Corca Dhuibhne region, published in 1986 under the title 'Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey', which catalogued the extraordinary concentration of early medieval and prehistoric monuments across this part of west Kerry. The stone cross suggests Christian burial practice, and the skulls confirm human remains in the vicinity, but the precise extent of the ground, its age, and any dedication it may once have carried remain unknown. On the Dingle Peninsula, where early ecclesiastical sites are unusually numerous, the loss of all oral tradition around a burial place is itself notable. Communities tend to hold onto such knowledge, if only as a caution to farmers ploughing or draining. That this one slipped entirely from memory may indicate great antiquity, or simply the particular discontinuities of this corner of Kerry over the centuries.