The site looks out over the southern shoreline of the lake, which lies roughly fifty metres to the north, and the elevated position means the dead here have always had a view. The enclosure itself is rectangular, running approximately seventy-three metres east to west and thirty metres north to south, which gives it an elongated, almost corridor-like proportion that feels unusual once you notice it.

The graveyard is a designated National Monument, and it incorporates the ruins of a medieval church in its north-west quadrant. The surrounding wall, about forty-five centimetres thick and rising to around 1.2 metres, is nineteenth century in construction, a relatively late addition that tidied and formalised a site with considerably older roots. Lough Gur itself is one of the most archaeologically layered places in Ireland, with evidence of human activity stretching back to the Neolithic period, so a medieval church occupying a commanding rock outcrop on its southern edge fits a long pattern of people choosing this lake and its margins for significant purposes. The site record was compiled by Caimin O'Brien and uploaded to the national monuments database in July 2018.

Access to the enclosure is through an entrance stile at the south-east corner, so visitors should expect to step over rather than walk through. The stile arrangement also signals that the site, though a National Monument and therefore protected, is not heavily managed or staffed, and the approach retains a certain roughness. The rock outcrop on which the graveyard stands means the ground inside is unlikely to be even, and stout footwear is sensible. The medieval church ruins in the north-west section are the oldest visible fabric on site and worth seeking out carefully, as the walls of a ruined church can be easy to overlook when they are low and moss-covered. The lake view to the north, framed by the nineteenth-century boundary wall, gives the site much of its particular atmosphere.