The one sitting within Ardagh Demesne in County Longford is shaped instead like a capital letter D, a gently curved form that sets it apart from its neighbours before you have even stepped inside. Measuring roughly 56 metres east to west and 37 metres north to south, it is enclosed by a stone wall that was built sometime in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, with stretches of iron railing added along the top. A narrow wrought-iron gate in the western wall opens directly onto the public road, giving the place a quiet, slightly formal face to passing traffic.

The graveyard is associated with a church that occupies its western half, and the two features have clearly aged together. The church is gone as a functioning structure, but architectural fragments salvaged or simply left from it remain visible within the graveyard itself, scattered stone details that suggest something more substantial once stood here. The memorials inside date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a period when Ardagh was a settled demesne landscape, and the site is no longer in active use. That combination, old gravestones, a disused church reduced to fragments, and a boundary wall that has quietly outlasted everything it was meant to enclose, gives the place a particular kind of stillness that has less to do with atmosphere and more to do with accumulated time.