The markers are modest to the point of anonymity, and their style is closely associated with cillíní, the informal burial grounds historically used for unbaptised children and others excluded from consecrated ground. Yet this is not straightforwardly a children's burial ground. Alongside those simple set stones, the site also contains rectangular stone-lined grave plots, a more formal arrangement, and two inscribed markers dedicated to adults, dated 1890 and 1899, positioned near the western and eastern limits of the space. The mixture suggests a place that was used by a community in ways that do not fit neatly into a single category.

The graveyard is irregularly shaped, measuring roughly 33 metres east to west and 27 metres north to south. It sits within a pre-existing enclosure, and the northern and eastern boundaries of the burial ground are defined by that enclosure's bank. Elsewhere, no trace of any separate enclosing element survives at the surface. The graves inside are aligned east to west, in keeping with Christian burial tradition. Recorded by McCaffrey in 1952 and later by de hÓra in 1991, the site occupies a landscape where the act of burial has layered itself across structures that were already old when the most recent grave-markers were inscribed.