The marked graves occupy only the southern half of the enclosure, leaving the northern portion largely bare, where the ground dips sharply just inside the enclosing wall. Whether that empty ground once held unmarked burials, or whether the topography simply made it unsuitable, is not recorded. The terrain itself is unusual: the land rises towards the centre of the site, giving the whole enclosure a gentle humped profile when viewed from the gateway on the eastern side.

The graveyard sits in pasture on a break in a north-facing hill slope, and its rectangular enclosing wall, measuring roughly 55 metres north to south and 48 metres east to west, does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1841, which suggests the wall was added or substantially rebuilt sometime after that survey was completed. At the centre of the enclosure stand the fragmentary remains of the medieval parish church of Kilcolman, now little more than a scatter of stonework. The site was already well established as a burial ground by the nineteenth century; the Ordnance Survey Letters for County Limerick, compiled around 1840, describe it as a large burial ground then much in use. The earliest legible headstone on the site is dated 1817, though the presence of the ruined church indicates the ground had been considered sacred long before anyone thought to raise a carved stone marker.

Access is on foot, via a path that crosses a field from the road to the east of the site. A gateway and stile are set into the eastern wall, roughly midway along that side. Because the site lies within working pasture, visitors should expect the ground underfoot to be uneven and potentially soft, particularly in wetter months. The church remains at the centre of the enclosure are the obvious focus, but the uneven topography repays a slower walk around the perimeter, especially towards the northern end where the ground falls away unexpectedly inside the wall.