..DAUGHTERS DIED IN 1690 S.B.' The ellipsis is not editorial shorthand; the stone itself trails off, leaving the daughters unnamed and uncounted. It is a quietly unsettling detail in a site that already rewards close attention, sitting within an earth and stone bank whose outer face is built in near-vertical drystone, a technique that gives the enclosure an unusually crisp, deliberate boundary for something so old.

The enclosure is oval, roughly 40 metres east to west and 28 metres north to south, with an entrance at the south-east. Church remains occupy the north-west sector, and resting on the southern bank is a granite bullaun stone, a shallow basin-hollowed rock of a type found at early Christian and medieval sites across Ireland, often associated with healing or ritual use. This one is modest in size, less than 40 centimetres across, but its presence alongside the church ruins places the site within a long tradition of sacred enclosures in the Irish landscape. Several early to mid-eighteenth-century headstones survive alongside the 1690 Byrne stone, giving the burial ground a legible span of use across at least a century. More intriguing still is a possible outer enclosure detected 30 metres to the north, where a shallow fosse, an earthwork ditch, curves east to west with an external bank and a further outer fosse beyond it. Whether this represents an earlier phase of the site or a separate feature altogether remains an open question.