That silence in the stone record is quietly striking. The enclosure itself is a roughly trapezoidal shape, around 80 metres long and widening from roughly 23 metres at its southern end to about 50 metres at the north, oriented on a NNW to SSE axis and set on flat ground some 420 metres back from the foreshore, with open views northward and a steep ridge providing shelter to the south.

The church at its centre, known as Killonaghan, is medieval in origin, and the graveyard enclosing it appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1842 and 1915, named plainly as "Graveyard" on both editions. What survives inside the ruined church is modest but telling: three headstones stand upright in the western half, while three flat graveslabs lie in the eastern half. These flat slabs, a common form of grave marker in Irish ecclesiastical sites, typically lay flush with or just above ground level and were often carved with simple crosses or inscriptions. Here, though, no inscriptions of any kind pre-date 1890, and there are no medieval or early medieval slabs anywhere in the enclosure. For a site with a church of genuine medieval age, that absence is unusual. Whether earlier markers were removed, worn away entirely, or simply never installed in durable stone is not clear from what remains.