Not neglected it, not enclosed it, but smoothed it into the surrounding field as though it had never existed. The OS Letters of 1839 record the fact with a kind of flat disbelief, noting that a large burying ground beside a medieval church in Ballytobin, County Kilkenny, had been erased by the proprietor within living memory of whoever the surveyors were speaking to. By the time the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced that same year, the graveyard was already a ghost of itself, shown as a roughly circular enclosure of about 30 metres in diameter, trees drawn carefully around its perimeter, the church sitting in its southern portion. A century later, the 1948 revision of the same map shows no graveyard at all.

The church itself, dedicated according to William Carrigan's 1905 history of the diocese to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, sits on an artificially raised area roughly 50 metres south-southeast of Ballytobin House, with open views to the west and northwest. That raised platform is itself worth noting; in an Irish context, such artificial elevations beneath early churches often signal long continuity of use on a site considered significant before any standing structure was built. Carrigan also records that burials were excavated within the church fabric during the nineteenth century, which suggests the ground retained the memory of the dead even after Baker's levelling above. A handful of headstones survive inside the church, and a private burial plot occupies the ground against its west gable, small evidence of a much larger history of interment that has otherwise been absorbed back into the landscape.