That reuse of old stonework is not just a practical quirk; it quietly settles a long-running scholarly argument about where, exactly, the ancient church of Kilcornan once stood.

The graveyard at Moig East Glebe is a rectangular enclosure, roughly 56 metres north to south and 38 metres east to west, entered through wrought-iron gates hung from squared ashlar limestone piers. It slopes gently southward and remains in active use. The earliest legible headstone on the western side dates to 1793, though eight chest tombs, a chest tomb being a box-shaped above-ground monument common in Irish graveyards from the eighteenth century onward, push the burial record back further, to the mid-1700s at least. A cluster of mausolea occupies the north-east quadrant. Some of the chest tombs have been vandalised. The more contested matter is what lies beneath and behind all of this. Spellissy, writing in 1989, placed the site of the medieval parish church of Kilcornan within this graveyard. The Ordnance Survey Name Books and the antiquarian T. J. Westropp, writing in 1904 to 1905, disagreed, pointing instead to the Church of Ireland building located about 185 metres to the north-east. The physical evidence, however, appears to favour Spellissy's position: architectural fragments from a medieval church have been incorporated as grave markers throughout the site, and that reused medieval doorway now forms the entrance to one of the nineteenth-century mausolea, a detail that is difficult to explain unless the original church stood close by.

The graveyard sits on the south side of the road, and the entrance from the gates is straightforward. Because the site is still maintained and in use, access is generally uncomplicated, though as with any active burial ground a degree of care is appropriate. The mausolea in the north-east corner reward close attention, and the doorway with its reused medieval stonework is the most singular thing to look for. The grave markers along the western side, where the older burials are concentrated, are also worth examining, particularly for any fragments that appear architecturally out of place among the expected funerary lettering.