The straight-sided stone wall that defines the graveyard today was erected in 1845, giving the site a neat, quadrangular footprint of roughly 52 metres east to west and 45 metres north to south. But extending some 20 metres to the west, a curving earthen bank about a metre high traces the outline of something considerably older, an oval enclosure of approximately 70 metres east to west. That curve is the surviving edge of an early ecclesiastical enclosure, the kind of rounded boundary that typically predates the more geometric layouts introduced during the later medieval and post-medieval periods. The 1845 wall did not replace the earlier enclosure so much as partially absorb it, leaving the older boundary visible as a quiet earthwork just beyond the present perimeter.

Within the graveyard, towards its western side, two low stony banks meet at a right angle, forming what survives of the northwest corner of a church. It is a slight trace by any measure, but enough to confirm that a building once stood here, associated with the oval enclosure that preceded the Victorian-era walling. The site sits on a west-facing slope overlooking a stream, a positioning that recurs across early Irish ecclesiastical landscapes, where running water carried both practical and symbolic significance. The church itself is recorded separately in the archaeological inventory, suggesting it was a distinct structure rather than simply an extension of the burial ground, though so little of it remains above ground that its full dimensions are unknown.