Flat cemeteries, sometimes called flat grave cemeteries, are burial sites with no surviving above-ground monument, no mound, no enclosing bank, no visible marker of the kind that normally draws the eye across a field. The graves lie flush with the surrounding ground, which is precisely why so many of them went unrecorded for so long, and why, when one does appear on a map or in a monument register, it tends to raise as many questions as it answers. This example sits in Ballyconneely, in County Clare, a townland whose wider landscape carries the layered traces of settlement and land use stretching back well beyond the medieval period.

Beyond its classification and location, the specific history of this site remains largely undocumented in publicly available form. The date of the burials, the community that used the ground, and any finds or skeletal evidence that might point toward a period of use are details that have not yet been made accessible. Flat cemeteries of this kind in Ireland range across a wide chronological spread, from early Bronze Age pit burials through to post-medieval practice in areas where formal churchyard burial was, for various reasons, unavailable or avoided. Without further excavation records or fieldwork reports attached to this particular site, placing it within that range would be speculation.