Compact and rectangular, it measures roughly 54 metres east to west and 28 metres north to south, enclosed by a stone wall built in the nineteenth century. Within that modest perimeter, headstones and memorials range across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, a long arc of local memory compressed into a small parcel of ground.

The site is older than its enclosing wall suggests. A church whose origins predate the wall occupies the eastern half of the graveyard, the two structures sharing the same enclosed space in a way that was once common across rural Ireland, where a parish would bury its dead as close as possible to sacred ground. By the time the Irish Tourist Association surveyed the site in 1944, and when Lennon revisited it in 2005, the graveyard had already passed out of active use, left to the quiet company of its older stones.

Visitors approach through a wrought-iron gate or over a stile, both positioned at the centre of the western wall. The stile suggests the site was designed to be accessible on foot even after formal burials ceased, and the gate and stile together give a sense of a place maintained with some care rather than simply abandoned. The church ruin in the eastern half is worth seeking out once inside, sitting as it does within the same walled enclosure as the memorials that surround it.