No grave markers are visible anywhere inside it, which makes it an unusual proposition: a burial ground that offers almost no outward sign of being one.

The enclosure is defined by a bank that varies noticeably in height, rising from around 0.7 metres on the south side to 1.9 metres on the north, a difference that reflects the practical problem of sitting a level space into a hillside. On the south side, a fosse, essentially a shallow ditch cut into the ground outside the bank, adds a further boundary element. The interior is uneven underfoot, though the north side has been built up somewhat to compensate for the natural slope. At the time of survey, a freshly dug hole roughly two metres across and 0.6 metres deep had appeared near the centre of the enclosure, suggesting someone had been digging, though for what purpose the ground does not say. Unmarked burial grounds of this kind are found in various parts of Ireland and can represent anything from early medieval Christian use to post-Famine cillíní, informal cemeteries used for the interment of unbaptised infants and others who were, for various reasons, excluded from consecrated ground. Without excavation or documentary evidence, Ballinoroher By. keeps its history to itself.