The enclosure is subrectangular in shape, measuring roughly twenty to forty metres north to south and forty to sixty metres east to west. That combination of earth, hedge, and stone to define a burial ground is a distinctly Irish rural arrangement, one that reflects centuries of practical boundary-making using whatever materials the local landscape offered.

The Roman Catholic church within the enclosure is the focal point of the site, and the graveyard that surrounds it almost certainly predates the current building. Many such churchyard enclosures in Ireland follow the outline of much earlier ecclesiastical enclosures, their curved or irregular boundaries preserving the memory of foundations that stretch back to the early medieval period, even when the structures within have been rebuilt many times over. The knoll setting is similarly significant; elevated ground, even modestly so, was frequently chosen for burial and worship, both for practical drainage reasons and for reasons that were less easy to articulate.