Most rise no higher than half a metre, and the majority carry no inscription at all, leaving the people buried beneath them without a name legible to the living. Only one stone breaks this anonymity in any way, marked simply with the year 1921.

The site sits on a gentle south-facing slope and takes an oval form, enclosed by a stone-faced earthen bank. At its centre stands the ruin of a church, a combination that points to an early ecclesiastical origin. In Ireland, this pattern of oval or curvilinear enclosure around a small church is generally associated with early medieval foundation, when such enclosures, known as cashels or ecclesiastical enclosures depending on their construction, defined sacred ground long before formal parish organisation took hold. The ruined church at Cloghgriffin predates its surrounding graveyard in any formal sense, though the two became bound together in the way these sites so often did, accumulating the dead of a local community across generations. By the twentieth century the practice had apparently ceased, and the 1921 date on that single inscribed stone may mark one of the last burials to take place here.

The site now sits quietly in farmland, the grass growing around stones that have largely lost their voices. The uninscribed markers are a reminder that commemorating the dead in stone was not always possible or customary for those without the means, and that a great deal of rural burial history in Ireland is effectively anonymous, encoded in the landscape rather than in legible text.