It is the kind of place that asks you to look twice: a low, D-shaped stone wall, roughly nineteen and a half metres east to west and twenty-seven metres north to south, encloses a heavily overgrown interior where the gravestones that remain are largely hidden by grass and scrub. The D-shaped enclosure is a form encountered at many early Irish burial grounds and ecclesiastical sites, where a curving boundary wall was used to demarcate sacred ground, often long before any formal church was established.

The site was recorded in a 1994 archaeological survey of the Ballinrobe district compiled by D. Lavelle for the Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association. Even at the time of that survey, the vegetation had already done considerable work in concealing whatever markers once stood here. Old burying grounds of this type, sometimes called cillíní or simply "old graveyards" in local speech, frequently predate the official parish system and were used over generations by communities whose connection to the land ran deeper than any administrative boundary. The modest scale of the enclosure and its location in rough pasture suggest a site that has been out of active use for some considerable time.