They are grave markers, almost certainly, but they tell you almost nothing. The site that contains them, a sub-rectangular enclosure defined by collapsed, moss-covered stone walls, also holds the remains of Shankill Church in its north-western corner, and a second, smaller rectangular structure about twelve metres to the south-south-east. Together, the enclosure and its contents occupy a gently south-facing slope in rough pasture and mixed woodland, with a stream running roughly east to west about fifty-five metres to the south. Ordnance Survey mapping has labelled the spot simply 'Grave Yard' across all its historic editions, which is an unusually plain name for a place carrying this degree of ambiguity.

The antiquarian T. J. Westropp, writing between 1900 and 1902, described the site as 'a graveyard and fragments of a church near Dangan Ivigen', which at least confirms it was already legible as a ruin by the early twentieth century. The concentration of unmarked boulders and upright stones is densest in the area between the church and the second rectangular structure, and the site is thought to have served at some point as a children's burial ground. In Ireland, such places were often called cillíní, unofficial burial grounds used for unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated ground, and a modern plaque placed about six metres west of the rectangular structure commemorates exactly this, inscribed with the name 'An tSeanchill Cillín'. The Irish word cillín derives from cill, meaning a small church or monastic cell, and the name points to the layered history of the place, sacred use folding over and into itself across many centuries. Research by Large in 2010 raised the possibility that the graveyard extends considerably beyond its obvious boundaries, potentially taking in two small fields to the south along the stream, a field to the north, and a field to the east, where further mounds of loose stone and low uninscribed markers are scattered among rock outcrops. An abandoned farmstead sitting about forty metres to the east complicates the picture further, since the land between the settlement and the burial ground may have seen overlapping use, making it difficult to say with any certainty where the graveyard ends and ordinary agricultural history begins.