The oval enclosure surrounding the ivy-clad ruins of a long church appears, at first glance, to be defined by a fairly modern stone wall. Look more closely at the southern and south-western arc of that wall, however, and it becomes clear that it sits on top of something older: a low earth and stone bank, the remnant of an earlier graveyard boundary that predates whatever was built above it.

The site belongs to a pattern common across early medieval Ireland, where a monastery or parish church was set within a roughly circular or oval enclosure, known as an ecclesiastical enclosure, that marked sacred ground and separated it from the secular landscape beyond. Here, the evidence for that original boundary extends beyond the graveyard itself. In the fields to the west and south-west, a noticeably curving field fence follows a line that almost certainly traces the outer edge of the early enclosure. It takes the form of an earthen bank covered in trees and bushes, the kind of feature that is easy to mistake for a routine agricultural boundary until you notice how deliberately it curves. The circuit does not complete itself; there are no corresponding indications in the fields to the east, and the bank terminates where it meets a farmyard to the south. Some low earthworks in the south-western field appear to be post-1700 in date, suggesting later agricultural activity has complicated the picture. What survives is partial, then, but the overall shape of a much earlier sacred landscape is still legible if you know where to look.