It sits not on open ground where you might expect to find it, but within the very fabric of the wall itself, incorporated into the rubblestone as though it were simply another piece of the boundary. Whether it was placed there deliberately, salvaged and reused, or has always occupied that spot is not recorded. What makes it worth attention is precisely that uncertainty.

A bullaun stone is a boulder or slab, usually of considerable age, into which one or more circular hollows have been deliberately carved. They are found across Ireland at early ecclesiastical sites and are associated variously with ritual use, water collection, and healing practices, though their original function is rarely agreed upon. The graveyard here surrounds the ruins of Galey Church, which was already depicted on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1841, its circular enclosure marked with a dotted outline. In 2011, Ann Frykler and Robert Hanbidge of Headland Archaeology Ltd. carried out a graveyard survey and recorded two features of note. The first, designated Miscellaneous No. 01, is a roughly circular, shallow concave depression about one centimetre deep, carved into the upper surface of a slate gravemarker in the eastern half of the site. Its carving is crude and its profile too shallow to match the typical characteristics of a bullaun; the surveyors noted several smaller depressions around its base but could not confirm its purpose. The second feature, Miscellaneous No. 06, is the more convincing of the two. Carved from a locally sourced sedimentary stone and set into the northeastern boundary wall, it has smooth sides, a fine concave profile, and a basin notably deeper than the slate example. The surveyors considered it genuinely comparable to other known shallow fonts and bullaun stones found elsewhere in Ireland.

The entrance to the graveyard is located midway along the northwestern boundary, opening directly onto the road through a pair of dressed rubblestone piers and a single-leaf wrought-iron gate. The possible bullaun in the wall is to the interior of the northeastern boundary, so it would be visible once inside. Both carved features reward close inspection, though the distinction between a true bullaun and a stone that has simply been worn or crudely worked is, as the surveyors themselves found, not always easy to call.