The ground itself sits noticeably higher than the surrounding wetland, which is often a sign that the dead have been accumulating in one place for a very long time, layer upon layer raising the earth above its neighbours.

The church at the centre of the site is known as Kylebeg, a medieval structure aligned north-east to south-west, the orientation common to early Christian and later ecclesiastical buildings across Ireland. What is quietly telling about this particular enclosure is the gap between two nineteenth-century maps. The first Ordnance Survey six-inch map, produced in 1839, marks the graveyard boundary only as a dashed line, which in cartographic convention of the period generally indicates an absence of physical enclosure. By the time the revision appeared in 1900, that boundary had become a solid line, meaning a stone wall had been built in the intervening decades. The wall is still there, forming a sub-rectangular enclosure roughly 38 metres east to west and 25 metres north to south, entered on the western side through a stile where the public road passes close by. The headstones that survive are concentrated to the south of the church and appear to date from the eighteenth century onwards, suggesting the graveyard remained in active use long after the medieval church itself would have fallen out of regular liturgical service. Scattered around the site are architectural fragments, loose pieces of carved or dressed stone that once belonged to the building and have since come away from it, lying quietly among the grass.