Most graveyards accumulate legibility over time, filling up with inscribed stones that name their dead. Here, the majority of markers are low, uncut stones set in rows along a north-south axis, carrying no names, no dates, nothing that identifies who lies beneath them. A few nineteenth and twentieth century headstones and a single family burial vault represent the more recent layers, and the ground is still in use.

The site belongs to a pattern common across early medieval Ireland, where a church and its associated burial ground occupied a defined enclosure, often on elevated ground. The ruins at the northern end of the enclosure are those of Durrus Church, a structure whose survival as a ruin at all speaks to how long this hilltop has been a place of organised religious activity. Among the features still present is a cross-inscribed stone, a form of early Christian marker in which a simple incised cross, rather than a free-standing sculpted monument, served as a devotional or boundary sign. These stones are frequently found in association with early church sites in Munster, and their modest scale can make them easy to overlook in longer grass. The triangular shape of the enclosing bank is itself worth noting; most early ecclesiastical enclosures in Ireland tend toward the curvilinear, and a triangular boundary suggests either the constraints of the terrain on Cow Hill or a site history that has not been fully unpicked.