The church itself stood for only 136 years before it came down; what it may have replaced could be six centuries old. That gap between the visible remains and the possible depth of the site is what gives this quiet enclosure its quietly unsettling quality.

The graveyard at Pallas in the Kenry barony is roughly oval in shape, measuring about 60 metres on its longer northwest to southeast axis and 50 metres across. Its boundary is a much-collapsed stone wall, now heavily clad in ivy. According to Seán Spellissy's 1989 account, the Church of Ireland church on the site was built in 1822 and demolished in 1958, leaving only that short section of wall at the northwest corner. The burial plots, concentrated toward the southern end, date from the mid-nineteenth century. Whether the site has older roots is genuinely uncertain. The antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp, writing in 1904 and 1905, suggested this may be the location of the Capella Russell, a chapel that could date back to the fifteenth century, though Chapel Russel was not formally constituted as a separate parish until the early 1980s. The connection remains unconfirmed.

The site is reached from the south, where a short tree-lined avenue leads from the road through wrought-iron gates set between ashlar piers, ashlar being dressed, precisely cut stone used here to give the entrance a degree of formality. The low briar-covered platform near the north end, measuring roughly 8.8 metres by 20.5 metres, is all that now marks the footprint of the demolished church. Visitors who know what they are looking for will find that platform, and the surviving wall fragment at its corner, more legible than they first appear. The rest requires a degree of patience with overgrowth and a willingness to read absence as carefully as presence.