That is the quiet strangeness of the old ecclesiastical site at Kilmadum, where the ground holds its secrets without much ceremony. When Ordnance Survey officers visited and recorded their observations in the OS Letters of that year, their local informants could only confirm the obvious: there remained no appearance of graves about it, and nobody had been buried there within living memory.

Carrigan, writing in 1905, identified the site as the former parish church of Kilmadum, and the physical evidence supports at least part of that claim. The footings of the church are still visible within an irregularly shaped enclosure, roughly 37 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, defined by a low broad earthen bank that curves noticeably in its western sector. That curving boundary is itself worth attention: straight-sided enclosures tend to follow later, more formally planned layouts, while a curved or sub-circular bank often signals earlier, perhaps early medieval, origins. By 1839, the Ordnance Survey mapped the graveyard as a more modest rectangular area, suggesting some rationalisation or uncertainty about its actual extent, and by the time the maps were revised in 1946 to 1947, even that outline had been dropped from the record entirely.

The site sits on gently sloping ground above a steep-sided river valley, with open views stretching to the east and south. The low bank, only ten to twenty centimetres high in places, is easy to miss underfoot, and the church footings are the most legible feature remaining. It is the kind of place that asks you to look carefully at what is not there as much as what is.