For a burial ground sitting in open rolling grassland on slightly rising ground, with no obvious concealment, that double absence is quietly puzzling. The plot itself is modest, measuring roughly seventeen metres north to south and just over fifteen metres east to west, the kind of compact, unassuming enclosure that could easily be passed over in a landscape that offers few dramatic landmarks.

The graveyard lies immediately to the south of a church whose origins stretch back to the late medieval period, with elements surviving into the seventeenth century. Late medieval churches in this part of Ireland were typically small nave-and-chancel structures built by local lords or monastic communities, and many continued in use, in altered form, well into the post-Reformation decades. The association between this graveyard and that church is the clearest thing the site has to tell us, though the absence of the burial ground from both nineteenth-century OS surveys raises questions that are difficult to answer with certainty. It may have fallen out of regular use by the time the surveyors came through, or it may simply have been overlooked, its low boundary merging with the surrounding pasture in a valley where the River Nore shapes the land to the east.