No headstones rise from the earth here, no inscribed slabs identify the dead. What remains instead are slight undulations in the ground to the east of the Belfry Church, the kind of subtle, rhythmic unevenness that, once you know what to look for, is difficult to read as anything other than the outlines of former graves.

The burial ground's existence was formally noted in 1860 by Gordon Hills, who observed that the surface of the ground around the Belfry Church, known in Irish as Clogas, still bore what he called "palpable marks of former interments". How much older the cemetery was than that observation, the ground does not say. A smaller rectangular enclosure measuring roughly 19 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west appears on the 1836 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, positioned to the north and east of the church, with the Belfry Church itself forming its south-western corner. This may be the same burial ground Hills described. A larger, roughly square enclosure, approximately 36 metres by 39 metres, was added around 1882 to 1883 when the Board of Works carried out repairs to the church and built a surrounding wall; this later boundary may partially overlap the earlier ground. The layering of these enclosures, one administrative and relatively recent, one cartographic, one observed in the soil itself, means that the full extent of the cemetery remains uncertain.