Sitting roadside and close to the seashore, the site is known locally as Reilig Chill Eoin, a name that points to a dedication to St John, rendered in Irish. What makes it quietly anomalous is the discrepancy between its past and present form.

When the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced in the nineteenth century, the site appeared as a small unenclosed rectangular area of roughly fifteen metres by ten metres, oriented on an east-west axis. That east-west alignment is typical of Christian burial practice, where graves are traditionally oriented so the body lies with its head to the west, facing east towards the rising sun. The graveyard that stands today, however, is enclosed by a rectangular wall and sits on a noticeably different alignment. Whether the ground shifted in use, was reorganised, or whether enclosure brought a reorientation is not recorded. Most of the visible graves appear to be modern, which means the older layers of the site, if any survive, lie largely out of sight.