The ruined church is that of the parish of Aghinagh, built on or near the site of an earlier parish church, and the graveyard around it reflects centuries of continuous use. The earliest inscribed headstone dates to 1773, though many of the markers are low and uninscribed, their occupants anonymous. Chest tombs sit alongside these simpler stones. What gives the place its stranger character is the tradition of rounds, a form of ritual circuit made around a particular grave, associated here with two burials. One is the grave of the Reverend John Callaghan, south of the church. The other, to the west, is said locally to be the resting place of Bishop MacEgan, a figure whose identity was recorded in the early twentieth century by researchers Hartnett and later by Henchion. Rounds of this kind, in which a person walks a prescribed path around a sacred site or grave, often while praying, are an old and distinctly Irish form of devotion, more commonly associated with holy wells and pilgrimage stations than with individual graves. That two such graves exist within one small enclosure is unusual. Outside the east wall, the burial plot of Sir Adrian Cartan de Wiart, who died in 1963, adds a final incongruous note. De Wiart was a decorated soldier of extraordinary biography, and his presence here, in a mid-Cork churchyard, is the kind of detail that rewards anyone who pauses to look closely at what is easily passed over.