The stones date from the 1720s onwards, making this a graveyard that has been quietly accumulating its dead for three centuries, even as the building at its centre fell into ruin around them. It remains in occasional use today, which gives it an unusual double life: part active burial ground, part outdoor archive of early eighteenth-century funerary stonework.

The fragmentary church at the site is the former parish church of Kilcurfin, whose walls still occupy a position just east of the graveyard's centre. The enclosure itself is substantial, running roughly 80 metres on its longer axis and about 50 metres across, all contained within a stone wall. Scholars O Buachalla and Henchion, writing in 1964, recorded the headstone count and noted the concentration of older stones around the southern and eastern sides of the church, suggesting that the most desirable burial positions, as was common practice, were those closest to the sacred structure, particularly near its east end where the altar would have stood.