Where most burial grounds settle into a roughly rectangular or oval plan, this one narrows so sharply that the eastern tip can barely accommodate a grave at all. The stone wall that encloses it follows that same eccentric geometry, and the ground itself adds another irregularity: a noticeable downward slope away from the ruined chapel in the north-west corner, so the site feels subtly tilted, as though the land is slowly shrugging the dead toward the road.

That ruined structure in the north-west quadrant was a chapel-of-ease, a secondary place of worship built to spare parishioners a long journey to the main parish church, in this case serving Inishcarra parish. Its remains sit at the highest point of the graveyard, which only emphasises the slope below it. The headstones around it are mostly late eighteenth and nineteenth century in date, the earliest recorded inscription going back to 1766. Alongside the carved and inscribed stones are low, unmarked gravemarkers, plain and uninscribed, whose occupants left no legible trace. The graveyard has never entirely fallen out of use, making it one of those places where centuries of burial practice overlap without much ceremony.