The enclosure's outline is now most legible as a series of low earthworks: scarps, low banks, and a possible double bank with an intervening fosse on the south-south-east side. A further area of raised ground extends beyond the main enclosure to the south, defined by its own scarp. The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows the enclosure boundary as a broken line curving around to the north of the graveyard, with a church depicted abutting it on its southern side. That clarity is mostly gone at ground level, and the interior to the north of the graveyard is heavily overgrown, with a small rectangular patch of brambles and stone that may represent the last surface traces of a former structure.

The place carries a considerable historical weight beneath its quiet appearance. Power, writing in 1932, equated Kilcummer with Cell Commuir, identified in the early Irish territorial document Crichad an Chaoilli as the chief church of Tuath Hi Bece Abha, suggesting it held significant ecclesiastical status within its tuath, the basic unit of early Irish political organisation. The local antiquary John Windele recorded a tradition of an ancient town and a round abbey at Kilcummer, said to have been destroyed by Cromwellian soldiers, and Grove White noted the foundations of several buildings near the church in the early twentieth century. Power also described many curious old headstones on the outer side of the more modern graveyard, though no surface trace of these survives today. Two churches are associated with the site: one still standing within the graveyard to the south-west, and a second, now only a marked location, in the northern half of the enclosure abutting the road. The whole complex, taken together, points to a settlement of some depth and duration, much of which has been quietly absorbed into field boundaries, farmland, and tarmac.