A bullaun is a boulder or outcrop bearing one or more cup-shaped hollows, ground out by hand over centuries and associated across Ireland with early Christian and pre-Christian ritual use, sometimes for grinding, sometimes linked to cursing or blessing traditions. That this graveyard is defined in part by such a stone gives the site a quietly layered quality, where the functional and the sacred have long overlapped.

The graveyard occupies a roughly trapezoidal plot, approximately twenty-four metres east to west and twelve metres north to south, and within that modest space numerous small set stones push up through the undergrowth. These are grave markers, plain and unlettered for the most part, the kind that signal a community burying its dead close to a local church over a long period without the means or inclination for carved inscription. The church to which this burial ground belongs is a separate recorded monument, and together the two structures, along with the bullaun, form a cluster of related sites at this one location in west Galway, each dependent on the others for context.