Human bones have surfaced at the site over the years, and the ground itself tells a quietly complicated story: the enclosure is not simply what its low boundary walls define. Beyond a stony ridge at the northern end, the earth rises roughly one and a half metres above the surrounding ground level, an anomaly that seems to belong to the burial ground proper, even though it falls outside the main enclosure. The dead, in other words, may have gradually outgrown the original space.

The enclosure itself is roughly rectangular, measuring about 11.8 metres east to west and 21.5 metres north to south. It sits approximately 76 metres south of the Saints Road, an ancient routeway across the peninsula associated with early Christian pilgrimage to sites on the Dingle coast. A low stone fence, now no more than 30 centimetres high, marks the southern and western edges; the eastern boundary is defined not by any wall but by the very edges of the grave mounds packed inside. Those mounds are generally coffin-shaped in plan, and some low upright stones are still visible among them. The survey carried out by J. Cuppage for the Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey of 1986 recorded the site in its current form, though whether the Famine dead were the last to be buried here or simply the last to be remembered is a question the ground does not straightforwardly answer.