Nothing marks it out at ground level; nothing is visible to a person standing on or near it. Yet locally it has long been called 'The Graveyard Bank', and the cartographers who produced the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map in 1838 recorded it plainly as 'Site of Grave Yard', suggesting that whatever memory attached to the place was still alive and legible to the people who lived alongside it in the nineteenth century.

The hummock itself is natural, formed from gravel rather than built up by human hands. That detail quietly complicates the site. A naturally elevated, flat-topped rise beside a river would have been a practical and symbolic choice for burial across many periods of Irish history, and such locations were used from prehistory through to the early Christian era and beyond. The name preserved on the 1838 map implies that by that point the graveyard was already a thing of the past, a site rather than an active place of burial. How far back the burials go, who was interred there, and under what religious or social circumstances, the surviving record does not say.