What gives this one in Kilballyherberry a quietly unsettling quality is the contrast between its deeply weathered contents and one jarring intrusion: a black marble headstone, dated 1982, positioned directly in front of the entrance gate, as though standing guard over everything behind it. It is the first thing a visitor would encounter, and it sits at odds with the 18th and 19th-century headstones that make up most of the interior.

The graveyard occupies sloping ground that falls away to the south-west, enclosed within a stone wall dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. It is sub-rectangular in shape, measuring roughly 44 metres north to south and 37 metres east to west, with a gate set into the centre of the eastern wall and a stile a little further north. The remains of a church occupy the north-western portion of the enclosure, a common arrangement in early Irish ecclesiastical sites where the church and its associated burial ground formed a single defined precinct. A second 20th-century memorial stone sits in the south-eastern quadrant, so the more recent interventions are not confined to the entrance alone. The interior, meanwhile, is heavily overgrown with nettles, which tend to thrive in disturbed or phosphate-rich soils, and old graveyards offer both in abundance.