Such sites are scattered across the Irish countryside in their hundreds, generally unmarked and easy to miss, but this one has effectively ceased to exist in any recoverable form.

The Ordnance Survey maps of 1841 to 1842 recorded it as "Kyle Burial Ground", the name Kyle deriving from the Irish "cill", meaning a small church or burial enclosure. By the time a later edition of the same map was produced, the entry had been quietly downgraded to "Kyle Burial Ground (site of)", the parenthetical addition carrying more weight than it might first appear. At some point between those two surveys the place had already begun to fade. The final chapter came more recently: the landowner, as recorded in the North Kerry Archaeological Survey compiled by C. Toal and published in 1995, stated that he had ploughed out whatever remained of the site roughly fifteen years before that survey was conducted, and planted an orchard in its place.

What had been a place of quiet, sorrowful remembrance, used by families who had no other recourse for their dead, was absorbed into agricultural ground and then into an orchard, with no marker left. The two map notations, one naming the place and one recording its absence, form a compressed history of how easily these marginal burial sites disappeared, not always through neglect or indifference, but sometimes simply through the ordinary pressures of working land.