It is the kind of arrangement that only makes sense once you know the ground beneath it was once a burial place, and that the church which stood here was pulled down sometime before 1838.

The original church on this site was demolished and replaced by the present Church of Ireland parish church elsewhere in the town. The old graveyard did not disappear with it; instead, as Bradley and King noted in 1989, it was converted into a public park, with the headstones repositioned around its perimeter. Three seventeenth-century stones survive among them. One marks the grave of Katherin Hughes, who died in 1668; another commemorates Ann Wilkins, who died in 1694; and a third, partially legible, records someone named William, whose surname has been lost and whose year of death is noted only as somewhere in the 1670s. These three stones are among the older inscribed grave markers to survive in County Wicklow, and the slow erosion of that third name and date gives some sense of what has already been lost from the site over the centuries. The practice of relocating headstones to the margins of a repurposed burial ground was not unusual, but it does produce a quietly dissonant space, part memorial, part ordinary park.