No headstones break the grass, no enclosing wall marks the boundary, and for a long time even the maps had it wrong, with the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map placing the site roughly 120 metres south of where local knowledge insists it actually lies. The only things that mark the spot today are a single upright stone, standing 1.6 metres tall in a roadside field fence, and a recently erected plaque carrying the graveyard's name.

That name carries a quietly remarkable piece of early Irish ecclesiastical history inside it. The townland is called Kilnarovanagh, and O'Donoghue, writing in 1986, translated it from the Irish as 'Cill na Romhanach', meaning 'Church of the Romans'. Hourihane and Hourihane, writing in 1979, offered a more specific reading: the name almost certainly referred to those who, in the 630s AD, adopted the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter. This was not a trivial matter. The question of how to fix Easter divided the early Irish church for generations, with some communities following older Celtic computations and others aligning themselves with the practice of Rome. A community identified in the landscape itself as 'the Romans' would have been, in seventh-century Ireland, making a pointed statement about which side of that dispute they stood on. The burial ground, unmarked and overlooked in its field, turns out to sit on top of one of the older arguments in western Christianity.