The outer boundary is not the stone wall most visitors would notice first, but rather the remnant of an earthen scarp, a raised earthwork bank that once formed the original perimeter. Only the south-eastern sector of this earlier boundary survives, running roughly 34 metres east to west and 24 metres north to south. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1840 record that the graveyard had no wall at all at that point, which means the stone wall now enclosing three sides of the rectangular plot, and projecting southward to take in a Church of Ireland building, was raised sometime after that date, layering a Victorian boundary over a much older one.

The Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656 places a church here, referring to glebeland located beside the churchyard, and the medieval church itself still stands in the north-eastern quadrant of the graveyard. Around it, the headstones form a loose chronological spread: eighteenth-century stones to the south of the church, eighteenth and nineteenth-century examples to the south and west, and a large mid-nineteenth-century obelisk to the south-west. That obelisk, along with several other substantial monuments dating between 1844 and 1861, belongs to the Low family of Kilshane. A nineteenth-century Church of Ireland building was added at the base of the slope to the south and now stands in ruins. The headstones thin out considerably as they approach the present; the most recent are dated 2002, but twentieth and twenty-first century burials are sparse, leaving the graveyard with a character shaped almost entirely by the nineteenth century. A bullaun stone associated with nearby Kilshane, a bullaun being a boulder with one or more cup-shaped hollows thought to have had ritual or practical uses in early medieval Ireland, was found in the area and is now held at the folk museum in Cashel.