It holds the quiet distinction of being a place that official archaeology has acknowledged but not yet described, a site that exists in the record books as little more than a name and a map coordinate.

Graveyards in rural Ireland carry enormous variety beneath that single word. Some are early medieval burial grounds attached to vanished churches; others are children's burial grounds known as cillíní, where unbaptised infants were laid to rest in unconsecrated ground, often at the margins of fields or beside old boundaries. Still others are simple parish or estate graveyards whose stones range from the elaborately carved to the entirely unmarked. Without further documentation, the character and age of the Gully graveyard remain genuinely open questions. The townland name itself, Gully, is straightforwardly descriptive in origin, likely referring to a channel or hollow in the local terrain, which may offer some hint about the landscape setting, though little more than that.