A decorated Romanesque capital, the carved top section of a medieval column, has been lifted from a ruined church and pressed into service as a graveslab. It is a quietly unsettling repurposing, the kind of thing that happens slowly, over generations, when a community has a ruin on its hands and stones to spare. The graveyard sits in damp, rush-grown pasture at the base of the Trimoge River valley in County Mayo, roughly sixty metres east of the river itself, on a gentle slope that contrasts with the steeper ridge on the far bank. The location is no accident: the site lies along a natural east-west route across the valley, at a point where the river could be forded, a crossing now formalised by a modern road and bridge.

The 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the graveyard as an irregular oblong roughly 75 metres north to south and 50 metres east to west, with a church occupying the centre of the eastern half. By the 1931 edition, the area had contracted and been enclosed by a mortared stone wall, leaving the site as a near-square of approximately 45 by 48 metres. That contraction is telling: the rough, hummocky ground immediately outside the wall to the west and south-west likely represents the earlier, larger extent of the burial ground, now outside its own boundary. Inside the wall the ground surface is very uneven, pitted with hollows and dips, and crowded with markers. Formal nineteenth- and twentieth-century headstones and graveslabs sit alongside many low, uninscribed stones, the kind that mark graves without naming anyone. The ruined medieval church sits in the northern half of the enclosure, and several of its dressed stones, including that Romanesque capital, have migrated outward to mark the dead. When the site was inspected in both 1988 and 1997, much of the interior was obscured by overgrowth. Roughly fifty metres to the south-west, in an adjoining field, lies a souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage of the early medieval period, adding one more layer to a landscape that has clearly been in continuous, layered use for a very long time.