Dozens of low stone gravemarkers are set into the ground in rough north-south rows, none of them inscribed, none of them identifying the people they mark. The site is narrow and elongated, roughly D-shaped, stretching 71 metres from north to south but only 8 metres wide at its broadest, shaped in part by the curving course of the stream that borders it to the east.

The graveyard does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838, which suggests it was either overlooked or not yet in use at that date. By the time the 25-inch plan was made, and again on the 1916 six-inch revision, it is marked plainly as a Grave Yard. A demesne, in the Irish landed estate context, refers to the land kept in the direct management of a country house rather than leased to tenants, and this burial ground sat within that private landscape. The interior is terraced in parts where the ground slopes gently eastward toward the stream, and the densest concentration of markers sits in the northern half where the ground levels out. At the southern end, the character of the site shifts noticeably: a rectangular plot enclosed by wrought-iron railings contains the graves of the Crean family, with burials dating from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, giving that corner a more formally maintained quality against the quiet anonymity of everything beyond it. Beech and ash trees line the field fence to the west and north, enclosing the whole.