This old burial ground, measuring roughly 35 metres east to west and 15 metres north to south, offers no obvious markers or monuments to catch the visitor’s eye. The site appears on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch maps, though you’d be hard pressed to spot any distinct features that would identify it as a cemetery today.

The elevated rocky area serves as a subtle reminder of how burial practices in rural Ireland often made use of natural landscape features. Without headstones or visible grave markers, the site blends seamlessly into the surrounding countryside, its significance known primarily through historical documentation rather than physical evidence. This type of unmarked burial ground is relatively common throughout Donegal, where rocky outcrops and raised ground were frequently chosen as final resting places for local communities.

The site was documented as part of the comprehensive Archaeological Survey of County Donegal, conducted in 1983 by Brian Lacey and his team of researchers. Their work, which catalogued field antiquities from the Mesolithic period through to the 17th century, has proved invaluable in preserving knowledge of sites like this one; places that might otherwise fade from memory as physical traces disappear and local oral traditions are lost.