Fragments of the old building have been pressed into service as burial markers, absorbed into the burial ground itself rather than cleared away or catalogued somewhere distant. The northern boundary of the graveyard does not even need a wall in places; naturally exposed limestone bedrock takes over where the stonework runs out, giving the enclosure an edge that feels less constructed than discovered.

A survey carried out in 2008 by Karen Buckley and Laurence Dunne recorded the graveyard in considerable detail. The walls along the western and eastern sides are built from rubble limestone capped with a projecting limestone coping, while the southern boundary mixes limestone and sandstone and is finished with what is known locally as 'cow and calf' coping, a style in which a larger coping stone sits alongside a smaller one. Two entrances punctuate the southern wall: a pedestrian gate of locally forged iron set between cut sandstone and limestone piers, and an eastern stile. Inside, the survey recorded 31 named tombs, 34 unnamed ones, 125 inscribed headstones, and a further 53 grave markers, the unnamed and uninscribed representing a significant portion of the whole. Among the more ambiguous finds was a prone grave slab lying between two tombs, possibly a name slab that had slipped from a nearby tomb and was later reused to mark an individual grave. Two punch-dressed stone blocks near the eastern side of the graveyard have similarly been repurposed as burial markers. Most intriguing is a chamfered slab on the western side, barely visible above the ground, with a three-ordered central projection at right angles to the main face. Surveyors could not determine its original function, but its character points clearly to the ruined medieval parish church of Clogherbrien that once occupied this ground. Stone from that church did not disappear so much as migrate, settling gradually into the fabric of the graveyard around it.