It is the kind of place that appears on maps and in monument registers as little more than a category and a grid reference, its stones and stories not yet formally catalogued or described in any publicly available form.

Sheeaun itself is a phonetic rendering of the Irish word for a fairy mound or small hill, a name that in Clare often signals long, layered human use of the land. Burial grounds in such townlands can range from early Christian enclosures, sometimes circular in plan and associated with a local saint or lost chapel, to post-medieval informal graveyards of the kind once called cilliní, which were used for the unbaptised dead and occupy a particular and often sorrowful place in Irish rural life. Without further detail it is not possible to say which kind this is, but the name alone suggests a place that people found meaningful long before they began writing things down about it.