The two ancient cross shafts recorded here are listed under the National Monuments Acts, yet they have not been visible in the graveyard since at least the late twentieth century, leaving a curious gap between official record and physical reality. That tension, between what is documented and what is actually present, gives this quiet ecclesiastical site an oddly melancholy quality.

The graveyard, a rectangular enclosure bounded by a post-1700 stone wall with an entrance gate in the southern wall, surrounds the remains of a church known locally as Templenacille. When Samuel Lewis compiled his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland in 1837, he was drawing on survey material gathered around 1834, and at that point two very ancient cross shafts were still recorded within the grounds. Cross shafts are exactly what they sound like, the upright central sections of early medieval stone crosses, sometimes surviving after the arms and head have been lost to weathering or deliberate removal. By 1989, when Bradley and colleagues examined the site, neither shaft could be located. Whether they were buried, removed, or simply absorbed into later stonework is not recorded. A preservation order, number 2/2010, was nonetheless applied under the National Monuments Acts, formally acknowledging that the monuments exist in record even if not in view.

The site sits in the south quadrant of its enclosure, which itself is the kind of detail worth keeping in mind on arrival. The entrance gate is in the southern wall, so approach is straightforward enough. There is little to see in the conventional sense, no carved stone to crouch beside, no obvious medieval fabric to inspect. What the site offers instead is the experience of looking at an ordinary rural graveyard with the knowledge that something was once here and is now unaccounted for. Anyone with an interest in the Survey of Ireland's National Monuments records will find the full entry under reference LI021-029002-, which at least fixes the absence in official coordinates.