What survives today is a thin wedge of ground, a remnant of what was once a substantially larger burial site attached to an old church. The rest, church ruins and the greater part of the burial ground together, was carried off by floodwater.

By the time Ordnance Survey officers were documenting the area in 1839, the damage had already been done. Their letters from that year record that the Dinin river was prone to violent flooding, and that one such torrent had swept away the ruins of the old church of Dysart along with most of its associated burial ground. A stone wall on the river side was all that stood between what little remained and further loss. On the first edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1839, the graveyard is shown as a roughly rectangular area measuring around 40 metres north-west to south-east and 25 metres across. By the 1947 revision of the same maps, that rectangle had shrunk dramatically to a narrow wedge, retaining the same length but tapering from around 17 metres wide at the south-east end to just 4 metres at the north-west. The north-west corner was later clipped further still by the construction of the N78 road. Writing in 1905, the historian Carrigan noted that roughly half a dozen inscribed monuments survived in the churchyard, the earliest dating to 1759. A field visit in 1987 found that the most recent headstone dated to 1909, suggesting the ground had long since passed out of active use.

The site sits on a low-lying valley floor near the confluence of the Dinin and Deen rivers, a position that explains both its vulnerability and its gradual disappearance. What remains is accessible from the road, though the narrowness of the surviving strip, bounded by water on one side and tarmac on another, makes plain just how much has been lost to the river over the intervening centuries.