Within the landscaped grounds of Furness House in County Kildare, a small tree-clad enclosure holds a rather unlikely combination of things: the ruins of a church, a pair of eighteenth-century tombstones, and a piece of prehistoric rock art. The enclosure is roughly square, measuring around forty metres on each side, and has long since fallen out of use as a burial ground. That it should contain layers of human activity spanning thousands of years, all quietly coexisting within a private demesne setting, gives the place an oddly compressed quality.

Two eighteenth-century tombstones were recorded here by Synnott in 1969, their inscriptions placing them within the era of the Anglo-Irish gentry who would have shaped the grounds of Furness House into their present form. The church they stand near, known as Furness Church, is itself a structure with its own distinct history within this same enclosure. Most striking of all, however, is the presence of prehistoric rock art, a category of monument that typically consists of carved or pecked abstract motifs on exposed stone surfaces, and which in an Irish context most often dates to the Neolithic or Bronze Age. Finding such a piece tucked within a graveyard on a Georgian demesne is the kind of overlap that tends to go unremarked precisely because it sits so quietly in plain sight.