According to tradition passed down through generations, this patch of good grazing land once served as a burial ground for the community, though today no physical trace remains to mark where the dead once lay. The site represents one of many lost graveyards scattered across rural Ireland, where time and agriculture have erased the visible markers whilst oral history keeps their locations alive.

The disappearance of such burial sites isn't uncommon in Ireland's archaeological record. Many old graveyards, particularly those dating from medieval or early modern times, have vanished completely from the physical landscape; reclaimed by farming, weathered away, or simply abandoned as communities shifted and changed. What makes these sites particularly intriguing is how they persist in local knowledge long after their last headstone has crumbled, with farmers and neighbours continuing to point out fields where their ancestors knew burials took place.

This information comes from the comprehensive Archaeological Survey of County Donegal, compiled in 1983 by Brian Lacey and his team of researchers. The survey attempted to catalogue the county's field antiquities from the Mesolithic period through to the 17th century, recording not just what could be seen and measured, but also what lived on in local tradition. Sites like the lost graveyard at Tullyvoos remind us that Ireland's historical landscape exists as much in community memory as it does in stone and earth.