The graveyard here is classified as an archaeological monument, which places it in the company of sites considered significant enough to warrant formal protection and study, though the particulars of what makes it unusual remain, for the moment, tantalizingly out of easy reach.

The village of Dunnamaggan itself sits within a landscape that has been settled since early Christian times at least, and Kilkenny as a county is dense with medieval ecclesiastical remains, early burial grounds, and the kind of layered occupation that accumulates over centuries. Graveyards of this type in rural Ireland frequently preserve the footprint of an earlier church, sometimes pre-Norman, and may contain ogham stones, medieval grave slabs, or the remnants of a nave and chancel long since reduced to low grass-covered mounds. Whether any of these features are present at Dunnamaggan is not something the available record makes clear, which is itself a small curiosity: a protected monument that has not yet been fully described in the public domain.