Known locally by the name 'religeon', a corruption likely rooted in the Latin-derived Irish word for a sacred or set-apart place, it was understood by people in the area to have once served as a pagan burial ground. That kind of local knowledge, passed down through generations of farmers and neighbours rather than written into any official record, is often the only thread connecting the present to a very deep past.

The field has since been reclaimed for agricultural use, and no visible surface trace of the burial ground remains. What once might have been detectable as uneven ground, a slight rise, or an area left deliberately untouched has been absorbed into the working landscape. Pagan burial grounds in an Irish context typically predate the arrival of Christianity in the fifth century, though the term is often applied loosely in local tradition to any burial site that sits outside the sanctified ground of a church or churchyard. The name 'religeon' attached to this field suggests that whoever named it understood it as a place of some ritual or spiritual significance, even if the precise nature of that significance had long since been lost.