It is one of those places that registers as significant enough to be catalogued as a monument, yet whose particulars remain, for the moment, largely unrecorded in any publicly accessible form.

Glenville itself developed around a mill settlement in a well-watered valley, and like many rural Cork parishes, it accumulated centuries of burial practice in a relatively small area. Graveyards of this kind in County Cork frequently began as early Christian burial grounds, sometimes associated with a now-vanished church or chapel, and were later absorbed into the pattern of post-Reformation and post-Famine interment that shaped so many Irish rural cemeteries. Whether that is the case here remains, without fuller documentation, a matter for local knowledge rather than confirmed record.