One of them bears a lozenge-shaped panel framing its inscription, surrounded by what has been described as a richness of new decorative motifs. The other is more arresting still: carved with two eagles, a chain, an hourglass, and a set-square, the latter group almost certainly indicating that the person commemorated was a member of the Masonic Order. For a mid-eighteenth-century gravestone in County Cork, that is a conspicuous declaration.

The graveyard surrounds the ruins of the parish church of Inchinabracky, and the site has been in occasional use across the centuries. The earliest stones date from the 1740s, and early twentieth-century observation counted around fifty headstones alongside two table-tombs, the flat-topped chest-like monuments that were then a mark of some social standing. A Church of Ireland church was built across the road to the south-east in 1839, though it had apparently vanished from the landscape by the time the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch map in 1902; that site is now occupied by manufacturing premises. The graveyard itself, with its ruined church at the centre, has survived where its institutional successor did not.