It sits in that particular category of Irish burial ground, common across the west, that predates any surviving documentation and has accumulated silence rather than history.

Feenune is a small rural townland, and graveyards in such places often have origins that stretch back centuries, sometimes to early Christian foundations, sometimes to the clearance of older settlement patterns, sometimes simply to the persistent habit of burying the dead where the dead had always been buried. Without specific recorded detail it is not possible to say which of these applies here, but the fact of its designation as an archaeological site suggests it is considered to carry genuine antiquity rather than being a straightforwardly modern parish cemetery. In Mayo especially, where the landscape holds an unusually dense record of early and medieval occupation, an unassuming field enclosure with a few stones and subsided ground can turn out to mark something of considerable age.