The dead were laid to rest inside a ringfort, one of those circular earthwork enclosures built throughout Ireland during the early medieval period, typically as a defended farmstead for a single family or small community. Using an abandoned ringfort as a burial place was not uncommon in rural Ireland; such structures carried a kind of lingering authority in the landscape, and the banks and ditches that once marked out a living space became, in time, the boundary of something quieter.

The interior is heavily overgrown, and the vegetation conceals small gravemarkers that are easy to miss. Just inside the south-western entrance, however, one marker is more legible than the rest: an engraved headstone dating to the nineteenth century. It is the only feature that gives the site a clear chronological anchor, suggesting that whatever earlier use the ground may have seen, it was still receiving burials into relatively recent times. The combination of a prehistoric enclosure and a Victorian headstone, separated by perhaps a thousand years of continuous or intermittent use, gives the place an unsettled quality that is more instructive than any tidy heritage display.