[3] The Curraghkippane name is a metonymy, as its meaning used to apply to the entire area on the hill, but was reduced to refer to the cemetery alone.

The wider area, including the townland to the east inclusive of the cemetery, has been thereafter referred to as Mount Desert.

[4] There are ruins of an old church on the cemetery, of which only the eastern gable and traces of a ringfort surrounding the structure remain.

[9] Soldiers from the World War I, patients from the old Cork mental hospital, some passengers from the sunken ship Lusitania,[10] and people who donated their bodies to medical research,[11] are also buried here.

However, in the 1990s it became clear that the burial site would not be used fully, and the superfluous area was given to Cork County Council for the establishment of St Mary's Cemetery, Curraghkippane.