This ancient cemetery takes the form of a subrectangular enclosure, roughly 25 metres from east to west and 15 metres from north to south. Three sides are defined by stone walls, whilst the fourth boundary is formed naturally by the cliff edge itself. The site contains what locals call a ‘church’, though it’s more likely the remains of a small rectangular enclosure near the centre of the graveyard. This structure consists of three walls, each about a metre wide, forming a space that measures 4 metres north to south and 5 metres east to west internally, with its western end left open.

The graveyard holds several intriguing features that speak to its religious significance. To the northeast of the central structure lies a low rectangle of stones known locally as an ‘altar’, which may actually be a leacht, a type of commemorative stone cairn found at Irish ecclesiastical sites. A cross-inscribed slab stands on the western side of this feature, measuring 85 centimetres tall and between 26 to 33 centimetres wide, with a plain Latin cross carved into its western face. A quern stone once sat atop the leacht beside this slab but has since been relocated to the maritime museum in Greencastle. Near the western entrance to the graveyard, visitors can spot a small stone cross supported by half of a stone socket, whilst numerous grave markers populate the enclosure.

According to the landowner, the site once held even more treasures; a second slab decorated with scrollwork that stood north of the possible church was removed in recent times, and its current whereabouts remain unknown. Archaeological monitoring carried out in 2003 in a field northeast of the burial ground found no additional archaeological features, suggesting the main concentration of activity was confined to the clifftop enclosure itself. The site was documented in the Archaeological Survey of County Donegal, compiled in 1983, which catalogued field antiquities from the Mesolithic period through to the 17th century.