This oblong sacred enclosure, measuring roughly 32 by 21 metres, is bounded by substantial stone walls over a metre and a half thick. The northwest side of the site runs dramatically along the edge of a small rock cliff, whilst a traditional laneway marks its southeastern boundary.

The heart of this religious complex contains seven small cairns, with one particularly significant example standing out amongst them. This subcircular cairn, rising just over a metre in height, bears fascinating remnants of early Christian worship. Atop it rest two stone slabs, each carved with distinctive U-shaped notches that once held what Patterson described in 1870 as a dumbbell-shaped ‘healing stone’, likely used in folk medicine rituals. Most remarkably, the cairn also supports a cross-inscribed slab decorated on both faces; one side features an elaborate Greek bar cross with a central circle and X designs in each quarter, whilst the reverse displays a simpler thin-line cross, also centred with a circle.

The site’s connection to St. Conall is evident in several features, including a curious dressed stone projection from the cliff face known as ‘St. Conall’s bed’, which forms a natural seat-like structure. Though a bullaun stone, described as a primitive font, was removed from the site in the 19th century, St. Conall’s holy well remains nearby, surrounded by its own penitential cairn containing a triangular stone with another characteristic U-notch. The Relig served various spiritual purposes throughout its long history, most poignantly as a burial ground for unbaptised children in more recent centuries, a practice that speaks to the enduring sacred nature of this atmospheric Donegal site.