The working interpretation is that it may be a font base, the kind of stone basin that would once have held holy water at the entrance to a church. There is, however, no church here, and no visible trace that one ever stood.

The graveyard itself is quadrangular, roughly 60 metres east to west and between 30 and 40 metres north to south, enclosed by iron railings on level ground that looks out over a gentle westward slope. What gives the site an additional layer of strangeness is the platform on which it sits: a low circular earthwork about 80 metres in diameter, which may be the remnant of a much earlier enclosure. The combination of a rectangular Christian burial ground laid over a circular earthen platform is a pattern seen elsewhere in Ireland, where early medieval religious communities were often established within, or immediately beside, pre-existing ring-form enclosures. The absence of any church structure above ground does not necessarily mean there was never one; many early Irish ecclesiastical sites have lost all surface trace of their timber or drystone buildings over the centuries. What remains at Goldenfort is a graveyard, a mysterious carved stone, and the faint geometry of an older landscape quietly persisting beneath it all.