The grass grows over it without interruption, and a visitor standing on the spot would have no way of knowing it was there. This is not unusual for early Irish burial sites, where centuries of agriculture, weather, and neglect can erase all visible trace, but what makes this particular case quietly compelling is the paper trail that preserves it. The Ordnance Survey's six-inch map, produced in 1842, records the site by name: Keil Burial Ground.

The name itself is suggestive. "Keil" or "Cill" is an Irish word for a church or monastic cell, often used in place names associated with early Christian sites, sometimes pre-dating the Norman period by several centuries. Its appearance on the 1842 map indicates that local knowledge of the site was still current at that time, even if nothing structural remained above ground. Whether the burial ground was attached to a small early church, a hermitage, or simply an ancient tradition of using the land for the dead, the record does not say. What it confirms is that the land at Gurranes was understood, at least in the mid-nineteenth century, to hold something older and more significant than ordinary pasture.