That combination, officially noted but largely undocumented, is itself a small curiosity. Ireland holds thousands of such sites, ranging from early medieval ecclesiastical enclosures to post-Famine graveyards tucked into field corners, and Drumellihy's burial ground sits quietly among them, awaiting fuller attention.

Clare is a county layered with early Christian and pre-Christian funerary tradition. Burial grounds in rural townlands like Drumellihy frequently grew up around a now-vanished church or oratory, sometimes retaining a pattern of use stretching across many centuries, with the earliest graves marked by simple uninscribed slabs and later ones carrying carved headstones in the styles familiar from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Without more specific documentation for this particular site, its age, affiliation, and condition remain open questions, which is itself part of what makes it worth noting.