That alone is worth pausing over. Not every old burial ground earns that status, and the ones that do often carry within them layers of use stretching back centuries, sometimes to early Christian or even pre-Christian periods.

Ballynamorahan is a small rural townland, and like many such places across Kilkenny, its graveyard may represent a site of continuous or intermittent burial use across a very long span of time. In Ireland, townland graveyards of this kind frequently grew up around the ruins of an early church or a simple enclosure, the physical remains of which can be difficult to read in the landscape without knowing what to look for. The name Ballynamorahan itself, in the Irish tradition of place-names encoding local memory, may hold clues to the site's earlier associations, though without detailed notes to draw from, any reading of it would be speculative.

The graveyard sits in a part of Kilkenny that has been inhabited and farmed for millennia, and the presence of a protected burial site in this particular townland is a reminder of how many such places persist in the Irish countryside, known locally but largely unrecorded in any publicly accessible form.