Headstones here span from the early nineteenth century to the present day, meaning the ground has been in continuous use for at least two hundred years, and probably considerably longer.

The Church of Ireland church that stands within the yard was itself built on the footprint of an earlier church, a layering of religious use that is common enough in rural Ireland but rarely loses its strangeness when you consider it directly. The practice of building on or immediately beside an older sacred site reflects both practical continuity and a kind of inherited sanctity, the new congregation inheriting not just the ground but the accumulated associations of whatever came before. What that earlier structure was, and how far back it reached, is not recorded in any surviving detail, but its presence beneath or beside the standing church is acknowledged.