On the western bank of the Colligan River in County Waterford, where the river bends southward, there was once a small burial ground that no longer exists in any physical sense. A quarry has taken its place, which means that what the 1840 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded as a modest rectangular enclosure, roughly thirty metres north to south and twenty-five metres east to west, has been entirely consumed by industrial extraction. The burial ground is gone, but the map is not, and the gap between the two is its own kind of historical curiosity.

The OS six-inch maps of the 1840s were among the most detailed surveys of the Irish landscape ever undertaken at that time, and they captured features that were already ancient or obscure, often preserving Irish place names in phonetic anglicised spellings. This site appeared as 'Fail na nGarlagh Burial Ground', a rendering of the Irish name that survives even when the ground itself does not. The name Foilnagarlagh likely contains the Irish word 'faill', meaning a cliff or steep riverbank, which would suit a site positioned along the Colligan's western edge at a point where the river changes direction. Whatever community used this burial ground, and for how long, is not recorded in what survives.