Graveyards situated within demesne boundaries occupy a particular kind of liminal space in the Irish landscape, neither fully public nor entirely private, often predating the grand houses and ornamental grounds that came to surround them, and sometimes outlasting them entirely.

Eyrecourt itself has a notable architectural history. The demesne's great house, built in the late seventeenth century, was considered one of the finest Restoration-period mansions in Ireland before it fell into ruin and was eventually demolished in the twentieth century. The Eyre family were prominent landowners in Connacht for several centuries, and a burial ground within the demesne would have served both the family and, in many cases, the communities connected to the estate. Such grounds frequently contain a mixture of family monuments, modest field headstones, and, in older examples, unmarked graves that speak to the layered social hierarchies of landed estates in early modern Ireland.