It is densely overgrown, largely inaccessible, and easy to mistake for a natural feature of the field. It is not. This is a killeen, a term used in Ireland for a small burial ground associated with unbaptised infants or, more broadly, with communities outside the formal structures of the established church, often sited apart from consecrated parish graveyards.

The site has a quietly traceable documentary history. The Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1842 marks the spot plainly as a roughly square area labelled 'Grave Yd', which suggests it was recognisable and named even then, though already perhaps falling out of active use. By 1904, the same survey had updated the label to 'Killeen Burial Gd. (Disused)', a shift in terminology that reflects both a more precise categorisation and the confirmation that burials had long since ceased. A note recorded by Bowman in 1934 adds a further layer: the remains of a church once stood on the north side of the burial ground, pointing to a time when the site formed part of a small ecclesiastical complex rather than simply an isolated plot in a field.