At Killahugh in County Westmeath, the ground inside the enclosing stone wall rises irregularly as you move inward, not through any deliberate landscaping but because the whole site sits on a small natural ridge that runs through the surrounding pasture. The effect is that the ruined structures near the higher ground appear almost elevated, presiding over the graves that cluster to the south and west below them.

When the site was recorded in 1980, surveyors noted that there was no trace of any earlier enclosure beneath the modern stone wall and its western gateway, suggesting the present boundary is a relatively recent formalisation of what may once have been a more loosely defined sacred or burial space. The graves themselves span the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. In the north-east corner, a small raised area has been set apart for the Grant family of Rathconrath House, a local arrangement that gives that portion of the graveyard a slightly more formal, demarcated character than the rest. The ruined structures on the higher ground add a further layer of quiet complexity to the site, hinting at earlier use without fully explaining it. The graveyard lies approximately 210 metres south-south-east of Rathconrath Motte, a motte being the raised earthen mound at the centre of a Norman fortification, and that proximity places Killahugh within a landscape that has been continuously occupied and marked by human activity since at least the medieval period.