It sits beside a name plaque, built into the rubble stonework without ceremony, its original provenance unestablished. It is a small detail, easy to miss, but it hints at the layered and not entirely legible history of a site that looks, on the surface, like a fairly ordinary Church of Ireland burial ground.

The church associated with this graveyard, known as Lisselton, from the Irish Lios Eiltín, was almost certainly raised on the site of a much older medieval parish church. That earlier building is documented, if faintly: the Ecclesiastical Taxation of the Diocese of Ardfert, compiled between 1302 and 1306, records the church of 'Liseltyn' as valued at 26 shillings and 8 pence per annum, with a tithe of 2 shillings and 8 pence. Nothing of that structure survives above ground. What stands today is the western tower or belfry of a First Fruits church built in 1789. First Fruits churches were funded through a Church of Ireland scheme that redistributed a portion of clerical income to construct or repair church buildings, and many of these late eighteenth-century towers are now the sole surviving remnants of their respective edifices. The oldest inscribed headstone in the graveyard, belonging to a J. Murphy, dates to 1799, which is consistent with the church's construction date and confirms that no earlier grave markers have survived.

The graveyard itself is polygonal in shape, its rubble stone boundary walls capped with upright stones set on edge, a capping style known as 'soldiers'. A total of 115 inscribed headstones were recorded here in a 2010 survey, alongside 126 unnamed markers, many of them rough unhewn stones. The majority of those unnamed stones lie not within the main graveyard but in a children's burial ground situated across a stream to the south, a type of informal burial space, sometimes called a cillín, historically used for unbaptised infants who were excluded from consecrated ground. Eighty-eight of the unnamed markers were recorded there. Entry to the main graveyard is through a wrought-iron gate set between ashlar piers, with a three-stepped stone stile beside it for those who prefer not to use the gate.