What makes this graveyard at Garranlea quietly unusual is the way its headstones have clustered not across the full yard but specifically within and immediately south of a former church, the outline of which is still legible in the landscape. The building itself is gone, yet the dead were buried as though it still stood.

The enclosure measures roughly 24 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, and its footprint was already well established by the time the first and second edition Ordnance Survey six-inch maps were made in the nineteenth century. The present boundary wall appears to be concrete, or an earlier wall given a concrete render at some later point. A gate and stile at the eastern end of the north wall carry an incised date of 1949, suggesting the entrance was rebuilt or formally marked well into the twentieth century. The headstones themselves are mostly from the nineteenth or early twentieth century, though the latest dates to 1960, meaning the graveyard remained in active use across several generations of local families. Among the monuments is a pillar memorial to Leonard Keating, positioned just south of where the southeast end of the church once stood, and a calvary mount in the northeast quadrant of the yard. A calvary mount is a sculptural grouping depicting the crucifixion, typically placed outdoors as a focus for prayer, and the one here belongs to the twentieth century, added to a site that was already old by the time it arrived.