Roughly twenty metres by sixteen, it is entered through square stone pillars topped with a simple capstone and a pair of wooden gates bearing a cross form. Along the south wall, a modest arched niche once served as an outdoor altar, its pitched slate roof finished with decorative eaves and a small pinnacle. The whole space has since been converted into a garden of repose, which is a contemplative garden not intended for further burials, though whether human remains still lie beneath the present ground level is, according to those who manage the estate, simply not known.

The enclosure's history runs through two distinct periods of occupation at Kilshane. During the eighteenth century the estate was held by a landlord named Lowe, before passing into the hands of the Holy Ghost Order, a Catholic missionary congregation that ran Kilshane as a seminary. The burial ground served that community, and was clearly established enough by 1954 to be marked by name on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of that year. Two priests are known to have been interred here, though both were exhumed decades ago and re-interred at Rockwell, the Holy Ghost Order's better-known college in south Tipperary. The order itself remained at Kilshane until roughly twenty years before the site was recorded, after which the property passed out of their care.

One detail in the wider grounds rewards attention. About fifteen metres north of the burial enclosure, in the garden area, a possible grave marker has been noted sitting beside a large rotary quern stone, a type of hand-mill used for grinding grain that was common across early and medieval Ireland. Whether the marker and the quern arrived at that spot together or by separate histories is unclear, but the pairing is quietly odd, and the question of what, if anything, lies beneath the surrounding garden remains unanswered.