The modern way in crosses about 300 metres of pasture from a road to the west, requiring a passage over a causeway that spans marshy ground and a cut-stone stile set into a field boundary. An older route, recorded by the antiquarian Grove White between 1905 and 1925, led from the Doneraile to Mallow road to the south, and this southern portion was still legible on the six-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1842. Two roads, one still in use and one fading into the landscape, converge on the same hilltop.

The graveyard itself measures roughly 42 metres from west-southwest to east-northeast and around 35 metres across. Its enclosing stone wall stands to about 0.9 metres, with a 1.6-metre-wide gateway to the west. An internal fosse, a shallow ditch cut into the ground, runs along the northern interior to a depth of around 0.7 metres, suggesting an earlier phase of enclosure or demarcation that predates the current arrangement. A rectangular walled extension in the northwest corner was added to accommodate the grave plot of one Patrick Piggot, dated 1925. At the northern end of the enclosure stand the ruins of the Church of Ireland parish church of Caherduggan, and beneath or beside it lies the site of an even earlier church. The earliest legible headstone dates to 1781, though two low, uninscribed grave markers north of the church ruin point to burials that predate any surviving inscription, their age and identity now lost.

Visitors approaching from the west should expect the causeway crossing and the stile rather than a formal entrance. The hillock setting means the graveyard is visible from a distance across the surrounding pasture, and the ruined church walls are apparent once inside the enclosure. The two unmarked grave slabs north of the church ruin are easy to overlook, set low against the ground, but they are among the quieter details that suggest how long this small hilltop has been in use.