Visit today and you will find nothing to confirm it. No stones, no earthworks, no outline in the grass. The 1838 six-inch OS map recorded it with some confidence, but whatever once defined that enclosure has since vanished entirely from the landscape.

The broader site carries the name Shelton, and that name has its own quiet history. According to the historian Liam Price, writing in 1967, the land here was leased to a man called Robert Hassells in 1685. Hassells built or occupied a house he called Shelton, and over time that name attached itself to the surrounding townland, the kind of quiet territorial drift that happened often enough in post-Cromwellian Ireland. Price also consulted an estate map of the Shelton property, which identified a hill in the area as Whitson hill, and it was on that hill that the graveyard was marked. On the basis of this, Price suggested that the site was not only a burial ground but also the location of an earlier church, though no physical trace of such a building has been recorded. The association is reasonable, since rural graveyards in Ireland were frequently established around, or in memory of, earlier ecclesiastical sites, even when the churches themselves had long since disappeared.