What makes the site quietly puzzling is the absence of any visible chapel predating the present structure. Somewhere beneath or behind that carpet of burial ground, an earlier place of worship almost certainly stood, yet nothing of it remains above ground.

The grave slabs that crowd the enclosure date from the 18th century, suggesting the site was in active use as a burial ground through the Georgian period at least. The rectangular stone boundary wall that defines the graveyard is a feature common to early ecclesiastical enclosures in Ireland, where a defined sacred boundary, often circular or rectilinear, marked out ground associated with an early church or monastic foundation. Here, the wall survives, but the earlier chapel it may once have contained does not. Whether the Church of Ireland building replaced something older on the same footprint, or whether any predecessor chapel stood elsewhere within the enclosure and was cleared away, the present evidence simply does not say.