Inside, the ground is uneven, grazed by animals, and marked by only two low grave stones. There is almost nothing here to indicate the scale of what the site once contained.

The burial ground served the local Poor Law Union workhouse, institutions established across Ireland under the Poor Law (Ireland) Act of 1838 to house the destitute, and catastrophically overwhelmed during the Famine years of the late 1840s. The dead from such workhouses were typically interred in mass or unmarked graves on land set aside specifically for that purpose, separate from parish cemeteries and largely outside the reach of formal commemoration. What makes this site quietly telling is its absence from the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the standard large-scale mapping of Ireland at the time, suggesting either that the ground was not yet in use or was not considered worth recording. By 1904, when the revised Ordnance Survey map was produced, it appears clearly, named and defined, a rectangular plot roughly one hundred metres east to west and twenty-five metres north to south. By then the worst was long over, and the site was already slipping into the margin of the landscape.