Rather than a boundary marker in the conventional sense, it functions primarily as a retaining wall, holding back centuries of accumulated earth within a roughly square enclosure measuring around 45 metres north to south and 54 metres east to west. The site occupies a natural rise on ground that slopes away to the east, where a marshy field begins, and the effect is of a small, quietly elevated island of the dead in otherwise ordinary South Tipperary farmland.

A church sits roughly at the centre of the enclosure, and the landscape around it carries further historical weight. To the east-south-east, the summit of the Knockgraffon motte is visible, a motte being the raised earthen mound at the core of a Norman fortification, typically topped with a timber or stone tower. That two such distinct medieval features sit within sight of one another hints at a corner of Tipperary that was long considered worth defending and worth burying in. The headstones within the graveyard range in date from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, with none appearing to pre-date the mid-eighteenth century, though the built-up ground level suggests the site may have been in use considerably longer than the surviving stones indicate. What lies beneath the accumulated earth is, as in many Irish graveyards of this type, a matter of inference rather than record.