Much of it is densely overgrown, which lends a particular atmosphere but also means that a good deal of what lies within it remains difficult to read.

The ruined parish church of Imphrick occupies the north-west corner of the enclosure, and it is inside the north wall of this ruin that the earliest legible headstone survives, dated 1783. That is not, however, the earliest evidence of burial here. The local historian James Grove White, writing in the early twentieth century, recorded a monument to a person named Holmes dated 1757, and separately noted burials from 1762 and 1790. The Holmes monument may correspond to what appears to be an overgrown vault at the eastern end of the church, though the vegetation makes it difficult to confirm. The combination of the ruined church, the earthen enclosure bank, and these mid-eighteenth-century burial dates suggests a site with deep roots in the parish landscape of north Cork, even if the physical evidence is now partly reclaimed by undergrowth.

A recent burial near the eastern entrance indicates that the graveyard has not entirely passed out of use, which gives the site an unusual quality: somewhere still in intermittent occupation, yet much of it consumed by time and growth. Visitors approaching across the pasture should expect uneven ground and dense vegetation inside much of the enclosure, and should look to the north-west corner, where the church ruin and the surviving inscribed stones are concentrated.