Tucked between Slievagh mountain and the Ferta river on the Iveragh Peninsula, this large rectangular burial ground appears to have expanded over time in a way that consumed earlier features, leaving behind only faint traces of what once stood here.

Among those traces is a possible leacht, recorded in the early 1840s. A leacht is a type of early Irish commemorative cairn or stone monument, often associated with pilgrimage sites and the veneration of saints; they appear fairly regularly across the early Christian landscape of Kerry, though they are rarely well preserved. That the one at Cloghanelinaghan was already being recorded only as a possibility in the 1840s suggests it had already been substantially disturbed or built over by then. More tangibly strange is an object that surfaced here in the 1940s: a handled wooden vessel of medieval date, discovered buried within the graveyard and now held by the National Museum of Ireland (accession number 1945:182). Wooden objects of this kind are relatively rare survivals, since organic material degrades quickly in most Irish soils; the circumstances of its burial, and what it was doing in a graveyard, remain unclear. Whether it was a container of some liturgical significance, a domestic object interred with the dead, or something deposited for entirely different reasons is not recorded.