The name of the Polish village Derenk has Slavonic origin and means berry, called cornel (lat. cornaceae, "drienka" in Slovak). Between 1717 and 1720 Polish people came here because their original village in Poland literally extinct after a plague. There is nobody living here anymore, now there is just a memorial place of Polish minority in Hungary containing of a memorial hall (Ruincity of Derenk), a chapel, a well and this cemetery. The cemetery reminisces 1856 people burried here between 1789 and 1943. There are still some original crosses and stones at cemetery.