A cashel is a type of early Irish stone-walled enclosure, typically circular, and the garth, meaning the enclosed yard within it, was at some point used for burials. When the land was later brought under cultivation, the plough turned up numbers of clay pipes, the kind once routinely placed on graves as part of a funerary custom widespread across Ireland.

Writing in 1916, Redington recorded the detail and went a step further, suggesting that the very name of the cashel, Caherapheepa, may derive from this practice. The word cahir or caher relates to the stone fort itself, and the latter part of the name, in Redington's reading, connects to the pipes associated with the burials within it. It is an unusual case of a place-name potentially encoding a folk custom rather than a physical feature or a person's identity. McCaffrey, writing later in 1952, also noted the site, though by that point no visible surface trace of the graveyard remained, and none has been identified since.

There is nothing left to see at Caherapheepa in the conventional sense. The cashel walls may still survive in some form, but the burial ground exists now only in the documentary record and in the name itself, a quiet etymological trace of a practice, and of the people who once laid their dead to rest with a pipe beside them.