That spare description is, for now, almost all that can be said with confidence. The site is a recorded monument, recognised by the state as a place of archaeological significance, yet the details that would ordinarily accompany such a designation, its age, its extent, any history of excavation or documentary reference, remain formally unpublished.

Rathfee is a small rural townland, and burial grounds of this kind in the west of Ireland can span an enormous range of periods and purposes. Some are early medieval, associated with a vanished church or a local saint. Others are post-medieval, used by communities who had lost access to a parish churchyard, whether through poverty, religious exclusion, or simple distance. A few are far older. Without further detail it is not possible to say which category this site belongs to, and to speculate would be to do the place a disservice. What the formal record confirms is that it exists, and that it has been considered significant enough to document.