A triangular plot of overgrown ground in County Kildare, bounded by a low dry-stone wall and entered through an iron gate, is easy to overlook from the pasture slope around it. Yet this small burial ground at Brackagh was, at least until relatively recently, still receiving the dead. A nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey letter recorded it as an old graveyard that was "used as yet as a place of sepulture", a phrase that hints at long continuity, a community still turning to a familiar patch of earth even as the ground grew rougher and the stones fewer.

The site is an irregular triangle, roughly 26 metres along its northern edge, 25 metres along the east, and 35 along the west, with a rounded southern apex and a gently curving northern boundary. Just beyond that northern wall, a small tributary of the River Boyne moves away to the north-west, tracing its own quiet course through the field. About a hundred metres to the south-west, a castle site occupies the same slope, the two monuments sitting in loose proximity on ground that has been shaped by human use for centuries. The oldest headstone still legible within the enclosure carries a date of 1769, though the graveyard was almost certainly in use well before anyone thought to cut a date in stone. Today the burial ground appears to be disused, the interior overgrown, the wall low and weathered, and the iron gate on the eastern side the only formal point of entry.