The graveyard sits on a low east-west ridge above a shallow valley, and what makes it quietly disorienting is the sheer compression of time within its stone walls: rough uninscribed headstones stand alongside flat graveslabs, chest tombs, and vaulted family monuments, with burials recorded inside the roofless medieval church dating back to at least 1644.

The enclosure measures roughly 50 metres north to south and 36 metres east to west, defined by a stone wall with a gate on the western side where steps drop down to the public road. It was already old enough to be mapped and labelled as a graveyard on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet in 1842, and again on the 25-inch plan of 1897. The densest clustering of graves lies on the south and east sides of the medieval church, which occupies the southern centre of the site. In the south-west corner there is a graveslab that may date to the 13th or 14th century, and a carved architectural fragment, possibly 12th or 13th century in date, has been set into the eastern inner face of the enclosure wall, repurposed as building material at some point, its original context now lost. A round tower, a form of tall stone structure associated with early Irish ecclesiastical sites, stands at the northern end of the graveyard. Writing in the North Munster Antiquarian Journal in 1990, I. Fisher examined one of the 13th-century architectural fragments at Killinaboy, which gives some scholarly grounding to the dating of the carved stonework.

The graveyard does not stand in isolation. Within a short radius, the landscape is layered with further features: a mound approximately 40 metres to the west, a burial barrow around 67 metres to the north, the site of a tower house some 70 metres to the north-east, and a bullaun stone, a boulder with one or more cup-shaped depressions often associated with early Christian or pre-Christian ritual use, approximately 109 metres to the south. The graveyard is the visible centre of a much older and more scattered ceremonial landscape, most of which requires some attention to notice at all.