Demesne graveyards of this kind are not uncommon in Ireland, where the landscaped estates of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries sometimes absorbed older burial grounds, or where estate families established private plots within their own parkland, separating themselves in death as in life from the parish church and its crowded yard.

Doonass itself was known as a place of some natural drama, the River Shannon narrowing and rushing through a gorge nearby in a stretch that drew visitors during the era of picturesque touring. The demesne was a cultivated landscape set against that wilder backdrop. A graveyard within such a property might have served the estate household, or it may mark a much older sacred site that predates the demesne entirely, absorbed into the designed landscape as the estate took shape around it. Without further documentation, the precise origins and the names of those buried there remain unrecorded in any currently accessible public form.

The site is noted as a protected monument, which places it within a legal framework that requires care and consent before any interference with the ground or its features. For anyone with a particular research interest in the burial ground, the formal record remains the appropriate starting point.