Yet burials were found, and not in the ground outside the walls but within the church itself.

Interior burial, while it sounds unusual to modern sensibilities, was a recognised practice in medieval Ireland and elsewhere in Europe. Being interred inside a church, particularly close to the altar, was considered a mark of status or sanctity, and it was not uncommon for founders, patrons, or prominent local families to claim that privilege. At Foulkscourt, the evidence for this came to light in the nineteenth century, documented by Moore writing between 1874 and 1879, and confirmed by Carrigan in 1905. Neither the church ruin nor its immediate surroundings show any conventional burial ground today, which makes the site quietly anomalous: a place of the dead with nothing on the surface to suggest it.