The site sits just 310 metres northeast of Blessington's existing church and graveyard, and roughly 200 metres northwest of a holy well known as Toberanbrick, placing it within a cluster of features that together suggest a much older sacred landscape quietly persisting beneath the modern town.

Archaeological monitoring carried out by Grace Fegan of Shanarc Archaeology Ltd. identified two burials during the initial topsoil strip on 28th October 2020. Osteoarchaeologist Dr Linda Lynch attended the site on 30th October, and a full excavation followed under licence between 17th November and 8th December 2020. The site appears to represent a medieval burial ground that had been heavily disturbed over the centuries, first by agricultural and domestic activity, and later by construction work associated with the building of the Rectory in the late nineteenth century. Preliminary analysis pointed to two distinct phases of use: an earlier phase of formally arranged east-west oriented burials, the standard Christian alignment, and a later phase of more informal burials, mostly infants. What makes the discovery particularly tantalising is a thirteenth-century reference to a parish church called Capella de Villa Cumyn, a Latin chapel name suggesting it served a settlement associated with a family called Cumyn. The location of that church has never been firmly established. It is generally thought to correspond with Scurlock's Graveyard in the townland of Crosscoolharbour to the north, but researcher C. Corlett has noted the possibility that it stood considerably closer to Blessington village, which would place it in the vicinity of the newly discovered burials. Whether the two are connected remains an open question, one that further documentary research and ongoing osteoarchaeological and dating analysis may eventually help to answer.