The site is classified as a flat cemetery, a term for burial grounds that lack the upright headstones, kerbing, or enclosures of a conventional graveyard. There is nothing to see at ground level, nothing that appeared on the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1837, and nothing that showed up on the revised twenty-five-inch edition produced in 1913. Even aerial photography has failed to resolve any feature on the surface. The burials are known, recorded, named as such, but the land simply carries on looking like farmland.

What gives the site a quieter kind of gravity is the presence of a holy well within its northern area. Known as Tober Lastragh, the well belongs to a long Irish tradition of sacred water sources, often associated with a local saint or pattern day, and frequently found in proximity to early Christian or pre-Christian burial places. The pairing here, a well with a personal name and an unmarked cemetery sharing the same ground, suggests a history of use and devotion that predates any cartographic record. The fact that neither the cemetery nor, apparently, its relationship to the well was thought worth marking on nineteenth or early twentieth century maps implies the knowledge was local and oral rather than institutional, passed between people who already knew where they were walking.