That elevation is not incidental. It hints at the long accumulation of burial activity and, quite possibly, at an earlier ecclesiastical enclosure beneath, a pattern common across the Irish landscape where Christian communities established themselves on slightly raised, often circular or oval plots of ground that later became parish graveyards.

The site retains the base of a west tower, a fragment of an older structure that once stood at the western end of what would likely have been a church. Tower bases of this kind are often all that survive when a medieval or post-medieval building falls out of use, its dressed stone gradually quarried for field walls and farmyard buildings over the generations. The graveyard contains headstones ranging across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, with the more recent monuments clustering towards the northwest and southeast. Beech and sycamore trees grow within the enclosure, their roots threading through centuries of burial ground. A formal survey of the site was carried out by Egan in 1992, providing an early record of its condition and contents.

The graveyard remains in active use, so the ground is maintained and the enclosure accessible. It sits among farmland rather than within any village centre, which means the approach is likely along a rural road with little in the way of signage or formal parking. The raised interior is the first thing to read carefully once inside: look at how the ground level within the walls sits noticeably higher than the fields outside, a quiet measure of how long this place has been used for burial. The tower base, on the western side, is easy to overlook if you are not actively looking for it, but it is the oldest legible piece of the site's story and worth taking a moment with.