It sits in that particular category of Irish burial ground where the ground itself holds more than the paperwork can currently tell us.

Roskeen is a townland in Mayo, a county whose landscape is scattered with early ecclesiastical enclosures, pre-Norman burial grounds, and sites whose origins blur between the early Christian period and older traditions that preceded it. Graveyards in rural Ireland frequently mark the sites of vanished churches or simple oratories, and many continued to receive burials long after any structure above ground had disappeared. Without the documentary detail that would normally anchor a site to a particular century or founder, what remains is the fact of the place itself, which is often the most durable evidence of all.