Grave-markers that once stood upright or lay in the south-west and northern sectors of the site were lifted during tidying works in recent decades and relaid as paving on the south side of a medieval church ruin. The dead, in a sense, are underfoot rather than beneath. Among these repurposed slabs is one measuring just over a metre in length, its upper surface carrying an incised outline Latin cross, the simple form in which the arms and shaft are cut as a single continuous line rather than filled or raised.

The medieval church whose walls these slabs now border is poorly preserved, but its surroundings have accumulated layers of later material. Two sandstone slabs set in the south-east angle of the ruin bear late seventeenth-century dates, 1682 and 1689, carved into the stone with the directness typical of the period. Nineteenth-century slate grave-markers, relocated during the same tidying works, now line the south wall of the medieval church and the floor of a nineteenth-century church on the same site. The effect is something like an accidental archive, memorials from several centuries gathered together by practical necessity rather than design. One tomb abutting the east gable of the ruin is said locally to be the burial place of the parents of Daniel O'Connell, the nineteenth-century political leader known as the Liberator, who was himself a Kerry man born not far from Cahersiveen.