Roughly eight metres east to west and five metres north to south, it sits within a shallow depression and is defined by a low scarp to its north. The working assumption among surveyors is that it is a vault, though the collapse into that depression suggests something has shifted beneath the surface at some point. It is the kind of detail easy to walk past, particularly in a working graveyard where newer headstones and a modern extension to the east draw the eye.

The site sits within the broader medieval settlement known as Pailis Greine, a placename that gestures toward considerable age. A bawn, in Irish usage, refers to a walled enclosure associated with a castle or defended settlement, and this whole cluster of monuments, including a motte, a castle, a church, and a holy well, suggests a community of some complexity once occupied this gentle north-west-facing slope in the barony of Coonagh. A motte is a raised earthen mound, usually topped with a timber or stone fortification, associated with early Norman settlement in Ireland. The graveyard itself is a sub-rectangular enclosure defined by a mortared stone wall that reaches between 1.45 and 1.7 metres in height and around half a metre in width. The walls run roughly 42 metres along the north side and 60 metres along the east. Headstones here date from the 18th century onwards, and burials continue to the present day, with a modern graveyard extending from the eastern wall.

Access is through an entrance and stile at the northern end of the western wall. The site sits in pasture, so the surrounding land is working farmland and the ground underfoot can be soft depending on the season. The church recorded within the enclosure sits off-centre to the east, and it is worth taking time to locate the grass-covered mound in the south-west quadrant, where the slight depression marks the probable vault. The full cluster of associated monuments nearby, including the motte and holy well, makes this one of those places where a short visit can open into something considerably longer.