That name, preserved in local memory, points to what was once a Famine burial ground, a place where the dead of the mid-nineteenth century hunger were laid without the markers or ceremony that ordinary deaths might have commanded.

Before land development in the 1960s and 1970s reshaped the hill, small unmarked upright stones were reportedly visible along the slope, the only physical sign that the ground beneath had been used for burial. Those stones are now gone, cleared away during decades of agricultural or building work that left no surface trace of what had been there. What survives is the placename itself, carried forward by local tradition rather than by anything you could now see or touch. Famine burial grounds of this kind were often informal, sometimes on marginal land, and frequently distinguished only by these rough field markers, which were never intended as permanent monuments and rarely survived as such.