Roughly a hundred metres east to west and ninety metres north to south, it is enclosed by a plain mortared wall, and its elevated position gives it a quiet dominance over the surrounding townscape that is easy to notice but not always easy to explain.

The site holds considerable historical layering within that irregular perimeter. An eighteenth-century church occupies the north-west quadrant of the enclosure, an older structure around which the graveyard has continued to grow across the following centuries. Headstones and grave slabs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries fill much of the ground, and the site remains in active use today. On the eastern slopes, two substantial family vaults belonging to the Finnucane family are the most architecturally prominent features, sitting with a certain weight and solidity against the hillside. Vaults of this kind, built to house the remains of a single family above or partially below ground, were a mark of some social standing, and the Finnucane vaults here are large enough to register as landmarks within the graveyard itself rather than simply as one feature among many.