No headstones break the surface, no enclosing wall marks it off from the surrounding grassland, and for well over a century before anyone thought to record it, there had been no new burials. Human remains lie beneath the soil, particularly towards the western end of the field, but the ground gives nothing away. By 1839, when surveyors working on the Ordnance Survey letters noted the site, local people could point to the place but acknowledged there was nothing visible to show for it. The spot sits on the gently sloping lower eastern side of the Nore river valley, with a small stream running close to the west, in a stretch of rolling grassland that looks, to all appearances, like ordinary farmland.

The site carries two traditional Irish names: Kyle-Chullamawn, meaning St. Colman's Church, and Thomple-Chyle-Chullamawn, the fuller form meaning Kilcolman Church. According to the historian Carrigan, writing in 1905, the original church of St. Colman once stood roughly 150 yards west of Conahy chapel, in a small green field to the right of the road leading to Foulksrath Castle. Around 1760, a new Catholic chapel was raised on the same foundations, incorporating whatever remained of the earlier fabric. Then, in 1839 or 1840, that chapel was itself demolished and the ground converted into a cabbage garden. Misfortune followed quickly. The owner lost cattle and suffered other setbacks he attributed to the disturbance, and eventually he laid the plot back down in grass, where it has remained ever since. Local tradition holds that St. Colman himself, always referred to as a bishop in oral memory, is buried within the old church precinct, his grave located at what was the Gospel side of the later chapel, beneath the third window. The location of the graveyard has been tentatively identified with the portion of the field where a schoolhouse is marked on the first edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1839.