The round-headed arch is carried on thirteen corbels, each one bearing a carved face with a letter cut beneath it. Above them sits a stone plaque dense with symbols of death and resurrection, and the Latin phrase 'Domus mea est Domus oblivionis', meaning 'my house is the house of oblivion'. Beneath a skull and crossbones, a further inscription in Latin addresses the living directly: 'Saltim vos amici mei miseremini mei', roughly 'at least, you my friends, have pity on me'. The reverse side continues the conversation from the other direction, showing a trumpeting angel above a coffin, with the inscription that translates as 'What you are, I was: I am what you will be'. This is memento mori of the most direct kind, and the gateway carries a date of 1815.

The graveyard itself sits within an earth and stone bank, and in its northern quadrant the grass-covered wall footings of a medieval church survive just below the surface. These low, turf-softened remains, all that is left of the church structure above ground, indicate that the site was in use as a place of worship and burial long before the nineteenth-century gateway was raised. The gateway's thirteen lettered corbels have not been fully decoded in any widely available source, which adds a quiet puzzle to the whole composition. Whether the letters spell something, mark individuals, or carry a symbolic count remains an open question. V-shaped stone stiles flank either side of the gateway, a practical feature of rural Irish graveyard design that allowed people to pass through while keeping livestock out.