At Castlegrace in County Tipperary, the effect is quiet but distinct: the ground swells just enough to set the site apart from the flat terrain around it, giving the enclosure a presence that its modest dimensions alone would not explain.

The graveyard is roughly rectangular in plan, measuring around 55 metres east to west and between 30 and 48 metres north to south, with an irregular extension pushing out to the north-west. A church sits centrally within the enclosure, the kind of arrangement that suggests a long-established relationship between the building and the burials around it. The headstones are of eighteenth and nineteenth century date, and the earliest with a legible inscription dates to 1764, placing it in a period when carved funerary stonework in rural Ireland was becoming more common but was still far from universal. That a stone from 1764 survives in readable condition is itself a small piece of luck; weathering, vandalism, and simple neglect have erased countless comparable markers across the country.