This one sits in an irregular enclosure, roughly 30 metres north to south and just under 26 metres east to west, fenced in timber and with its grave markers gathered towards the southern side, as though pressed into a corner by the looming fortifications behind them.

Charles Fort itself is a late seventeenth-century star-shaped artillery fortification, one of the largest of its kind in Ireland, built to guard the entrance to Kinsale Harbour following the Williamite Wars. The presence of burial grounds directly outside its walls is a reminder that military installations accumulated their own communities, and their own dead, in ways that the formal history of sieges and garrisons does not always capture. Close by, to the south-east, lies Trinity Well, a holy well whose proximity to both the fort and the burial ground suggests a layering of uses, religious and civic, that predates or runs alongside the military history of the site. Holy wells in Ireland were frequently associated with patron days, local cures, and communal gathering, and their survival beside later structures often points to the enduring significance of a particular piece of ground across very different periods.