That is not a figure of speech; their exact positions within the enclosure are simply unknown. It is an oddly fitting situation for objects designed to mark the dead, themselves now in some sense misplaced.

The graveyard is associated with a multiperiod church, meaning the site accumulated layers of use and rebuilding across several centuries. Writing in 1905, the historian Carrigan noted two uninscribed coffin-shaped slabs bearing raised crosses, which he dated to the 13th or 14th century. Coffin-shaped graveslabs of this type, wider at the head and tapering toward the feet, were a common commemorative form in medieval Ireland, carved from local stone and laid flat over or near a burial. What makes the Coolaghmore examples slightly arresting is their scale. Carrigan described one as very small, measuring only eight or nine inches across at its narrow end, roughly 0.2 to 0.23 metres, which would make it unusually slight even by the standards of the period. Whether it marked an infant burial, was cut for a different purpose, or was simply the work of a mason with limited material to hand is not recorded. These two slabs appear to be separate from two further graveslabs identified at the site during later fieldwork, suggesting the graveyard contains at least four medieval carved stones in total, scattered across ground that has been in use for a very long time.