The one attached to Ruan church in County Clare takes a different shape entirely: pentagonal, its masonry boundary wall enclosing a space roughly a hundred metres from north to south and up to sixty-two metres at its widest east-west point. That five-sided outline, held in by a wall standing between one and one-point-four metres high, gives the whole enclosure an quietly deliberate quality, as though whoever first laid it out had reasons of their own for departing from convention.

Within the wall, the graveyard holds mainly nineteenth and twentieth century graves, along with a mausoleum built to the north of the church for the O'Loghlen family, one of the prominent dynasties of north Clare. A mausoleum of this kind, a substantial above-ground burial structure rather than a simple graveslab or vault, signals the kind of family that wished its memory to be architectural as well as genealogical. The O'Loghlens were a Gaelic family historically associated with the Burren region, and the presence of their dedicated structure here in Ruan speaks to the way local landed and gentry families continued to mark their territory in stone well into the modern era. The graveyard has been extended to the west at some point, which may account for some of the unusual perimeter geometry, as later additions rarely produce tidy angles.