It is not enclosed by a churchyard wall or marked by any obvious religious structure; instead, a stone field fence runs along three sides, west, north, and east, giving it the appearance, at first, of an ordinary agricultural enclosure. Only the many grave markers still visible in the interior suggest that this ground was set aside for the dead rather than for livestock.

The site measures roughly 31 metres east to west and 26 metres north to south, a modest but deliberate space. It was recorded as a burial ground on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, which means it was already recognised as such by the time that great national mapping effort passed through County Cork. A gap roughly three metres wide in the fence at the north-east corner remains unexplained by available records, though breaks of this kind in burial enclosures sometimes served as a formal entrance, or simply reflect later agricultural disturbance. Without a church ruin or a clear denominational marker nearby, the ground likely belongs to the category of informal or pre-nineteenth-century rural burial sites that were once common across Ireland, used by communities before or outside the formal parish system, or sometimes reserved for unbaptised children, though nothing in the available record confirms that specifically for Rosskerrig.