The cemetery at Kishkeam, in the north Cork uplands, does exactly that. What began as a discrete plot sitting to the north of a Roman Catholic church had, by the mid-twentieth century, expanded southward to absorb the footprint of the building it once accompanied, the church itself having been knocked down sometime in the 1920s.

The sequence of events can be traced through successive Ordnance Survey maps. The 1842 six-inch survey makes no mention of the burial ground at all, suggesting it was either too small to record or had not yet taken its formal shape. By 1904 it appears as a roughly square enclosure, approximately sixty metres on each side, immediately north of the church. Then, on the 1937 revision, the outline has shifted and grown: the plot now stretches around a hundred metres north to south and has pushed southward into the ground where the church once stood, the building by then already gone for over a decade. The physical boundary today is a concrete wall along the eastern, southern, and western sides, with a field fence marking the northern edge. Many of the headstones visible within date from the 1940s, and the ground remains in active use as a burial place.