Known locally as Reilig Sheanadh Mhaoilín, it carries a Irish-language name that roots it firmly in a particular local identity, even as its physical form has shifted considerably from what was first mapped. The original Ordnance Survey six-inch map, produced in the nineteenth century, recorded a distinctly D-shaped enclosure, roughly thirty metres by twenty-five metres, a form that likely reflects an older, possibly early medieval tradition of curved or oval burial enclosures commonly associated with early Christian sites in Ireland. That rounded outline has since been squared off and expanded into a walled rectangle, the kind of gradual, practical reshaping that happens when a community continues to use a burial ground across generations rather than abandon it.

The name Reilig Sheanadh Mhaoilín suggests a long local memory attached to this place, though the majority of the graves visible today appear to be modern. This is not unusual in Irish burial grounds that have remained in continuous use; older markers of stone or timber simply do not survive the way later ones do, and earlier graves are often absorbed beneath later ones without any visible trace. The D-shaped plan recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey map is the most telling surviving clue that something older may lie beneath the current arrangement, since that distinctive curved form is a recognised feature of early ecclesiastical enclosures across Ireland, even when no church building remains.