Somewhere within this layered landscape there is also a graveyard, quiet and formally recorded among Ireland's archaeological monuments, though the details of its age, its extent, and the community it once served remain at present undocumented in publicly accessible records.

Bog graveyards in the west of Ireland are not unusual in themselves. Communities that had little access to consecrated ground, or who were burying the unbaptised, the shipwrecked, or those who died in times of catastrophe, often interred their dead in remote or marginal land. The boggy, Atlantic-facing terrain of Derrigimlagh, on the south-western edge of Connemara near Clifden, would have shaped the lives and deaths of generations of small farming and fishing families, particularly through the nineteenth century and the years of the Great Famine. Whether this graveyard belongs to that tradition, or to an earlier or later period entirely, is a question the available record cannot yet answer.

The site sits in a landscape worth approaching slowly regardless of one's purpose. The Derrigimlagh loop walk passes the Marconi station ruins and the Alcock and Brown memorial, and the broader bog is threaded with bog cotton and black water channels that make the terrain as distinctive as any monument within it.