The area measures roughly twenty-five metres at its longest, and the whole thing sits on a gentle south-easterly slope in what is now improved pasture. What makes it quietly arresting is not its size but its category. Known locally as a "religeen", a term used in Ireland for informal or unconsecrated burial grounds, often associated with unbaptised children or the rural poor, it belongs to a class of site that was once widespread but is now frequently unmarked, overgrown, and overlooked.

The site came to wider notice in 1964, when a stone font found in its vicinity was reported to the National Museum of Ireland. The Office of Public Works file from that year describes it simply as "an old stone font which was found near an old religeen in the townland of Balisland". A font, in this context, is a basin of shaped stone used to hold water for religious rituals, most commonly baptism. Its presence near a religeen carries a certain irony, given that many such burial grounds were specifically used for those who died without baptism. Whether the font predates the informal cemetery, belonged to an earlier ecclesiastical site on or near the same ground, or arrived there by some other route, the record does not say. The triangular enclosure itself appears on the 1909 edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map, suggesting it was a recognised feature of the local landscape at least by that point.

The junction of the field and lane is described as very overgrown, which gives some indication of what a visitor would encounter. The boundaries are clear enough on mapping, but on the ground the site has retreated into the margins of the agricultural landscape around it, as many such places have.