Its name survives; its location is fixed on the map; beyond that, the details remain locked away. That combination, a place significant enough to warrant protection but too little studied to describe in any depth, is not uncommon in rural Ireland, where the sheer density of ancient and early Christian burial sites has long outpaced the resources available to investigate them.

Coolroe More is a small townland, and burial grounds in such settings tend to follow one of a handful of patterns familiar across Munster. Some are early medieval cillíní, informal cemeteries used for unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground. Others mark the sites of long-vanished early Christian churches or enclosures, sometimes with only a scatter of worked stone or a raised oval platform to indicate what once stood there. Without further detail it is impossible to say which category, if any, applies here, and it would be wrong to guess. What can be said is that the ground itself carries the weight of that designation, a recognised monument in a county where such places are measured in the thousands.