The slab now lies inside the remains of Kilcarragh Church, set on a low natural rise among the undulating limestone outcrops that characterise this part of the Burren landscape. What makes the site quietly curious is precisely this ambiguity: the stone is there, the church is there, but the graveyard itself is a matter of inference rather than certainty.

The uncertainty has a specific source. A 1992 study by Swinfen noted that the graveslab had previously been recorded as lying near the church rather than within it, which suggests the stone may have been moved at some point. That earlier position, outside the church walls, is what has led researchers to conclude there was probably a graveyard here at one time. A graveslab, typically a flat dressed stone placed directly over a burial, would ordinarily mark an interment in consecrated ground adjacent to a place of worship. Whether any graves survive beneath the surface, and whether the ground around the church was ever formally used for burial in any organised way, remains an open question.