The site sits on a low knoll in gently rolling pasture, its oval outline measuring roughly 49 metres north to south and 45 metres east to west. It is no flat, featureless enclosure either; a wide earthen and stone bank, up to half a metre high, curves around the north-eastern to south-eastern edge, while a more pronounced scarp, rising to nearly two metres in places, defines the opposite arc. Large upright slabs revetting the outer base of both features suggest the enclosure was constructed with some care and intention. The interior slopes noticeably from west to east, and hedgerow fills the gaps where the earthworks give out. There is no trace of a fosse, the kind of external ditch that typically accompanies a defensive or ritual enclosure, and the original entrance has been lost entirely.

The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1837 names this an Old Graveyard, which implies local memory of burial here was already old by that point. Yet the absence of any grave-markers, above ground at least, is striking. The shape and scale of the enclosure, combined with the townland name Kilbride, which derives from the Irish Cill Bhríde, meaning the church of Brigid, point toward something older than a post-medieval burial ground. Researcher Lennon, writing in 2005, suggested this may be an early ecclesiastical foundation, and a possible church site has been identified in close association with the enclosure. In early medieval Ireland, religious communities were often established within oval or sub-circular enclosures of precisely this kind, demarcating sacred ground in ways that could survive for centuries as earthworks long after any timber or stone structures had disappeared.