The site of the burial ground associated with the early medieval chapel or keeill which is thought to have been in use between circa AD500 and AD1000. Keeill Coonlagh or Kirk Ooslan is thought to be the site of the first parish church of Jurby. 


Mr Callister, the farmer in 1910, stated that the soil at this spot was quite black and rich and he had found human bones about two feet below the surface, but no foundation stones, lintel graves or slabs.