They were cut, at some earlier point, for a church. Worked architectural or structural stones from the associated medieval church have been recycled here as grave-markers, giving the southern part of the graveyard a quietly layered quality, where the material of one building's life has been repurposed to record the end of others.

The graveyard itself is a roughly trapezoidal enclosure, measuring approximately 80 metres east to west and 65 metres north to south, bounded by a stone wall and entered through a gateway in the western wall. It is associated with a nearby church, and at some point was extended towards the north-west. That expansion erased the line of the earlier northern wall, though the original boundary can still be traced on the ground if you know to look for it. The graveslabs in the older southern portion date largely to the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a span that reflects the common Irish pattern of a site remaining in continuous use across centuries while the church it once served fell into disuse or ruin.