No walls remain, no carved stonework, no obvious marker to announce that something once stood here. What survives instead is a shape: a D-shaped enclosure, its boundary ditch still legible from the air, enclosing a burial ground that quietly preserves the memory of a building most people have never heard of.

The site is recorded as the location of Hackmy's Church, catalogued under the reference LI047-030001. The name itself is unusual and its origins are not elaborated in the available record, which is sometimes how it goes with early ecclesiastical sites in Ireland; the dedication or placename survives in fragmentary form, the building does not. What the 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map does preserve is the dotted outline of the D-shaped burial ground, that distinctive enclosure form which is frequently associated with early Christian ecclesiastical foundations in Ireland. Aerial photography from Digital Globe has since confirmed that the enclosing ditch of the graveyard remains visible on the ground, a detail compiled by archaeologist Caimin O'Brien and uploaded to the record in July 2019. The D-shaped or subcircular enclosure is a recognised feature of early medieval Irish church sites, thought to reflect the original boundary, or temenos, of a sacred precinct.

The site is not signposted or formally presented to visitors, and the approach will require some attention to the landscape rather than any obvious infrastructure. The enclosure and its ditch are most likely to be readable from an elevated viewpoint or, more practically, by studying aerial imagery before visiting. On the ground, the burial ground itself is the most tangible feature, and the boundary earthwork, if visible at all in person, would appear as a subtle rise or depression in the surrounding field. Visiting in winter or early spring, when vegetation is low and shadows are long, gives the best chance of reading any earthwork traces in the grass.