The present graveyard, enclosed by a stone wall and measuring roughly 79 metres on its longest axis, holds a distinctly subcircular shape, the kind of rounded, irregular outline that archaeologists associate not with post-medieval burial grounds but with the enclosing banks or walls that once defined early Irish monastic sites. An ecclesiastical enclosure of this type was effectively the boundary marker of an early Christian community, delineating sacred ground, domestic quarters, and sometimes agricultural land from the world outside. The graveyard wall, in other words, may simply follow a much older line.

Within that boundary, two further structures complicate the picture in an interesting way. The Augustinian Priory of All Saints occupies the western half of the interior, a religious house of the Augustinian order, canons who lived communally under the Rule of Saint Augustine and who established priories across Ireland from the twelfth century onwards. In the north-eastern corner of the enclosure there is a separate structure identified as a possible church, distinct from the priory itself. The layering here is characteristic of Irish ecclesiastical sites: an early monastic foundation, perhaps predating any surviving stonework by centuries, later absorbed or built over by a medieval religious house, with the original enclosure quietly preserved in the curve of a wall that nobody quite dismantled.