The beach at Trá an Dóilín, on the eastern side of Cuan an Fhir Mhóir, was known locally as Trá na bPáistí, meaning the beach of the children, a name that carries the full weight of what it once was.

Sites of this kind, known in Irish as cillíní, were used across Ireland for the burial of unbaptised infants and others who, under Catholic Church practice, could not be interred in consecrated ground. They were typically placed at liminal locations, on boundaries, shorelines, or at the margins of parish land, and were often marked in simple ways. At Trá na bPáistí, additional burials to the east of the main site were identified by small circles of stones laid directly on the ground. According to Tim Robinson, whose detailed mapping and documentation of Connemara in the 1980s remains an invaluable source for the region, the site was in use until around 1960. That is a remarkably recent date, placing active burials here within the lifetimes of many people still living. The entire site was subsequently obliterated when the modern car park was constructed, removing both the primary burial ground and those stone-marked graves nearby.

There is nothing to see at the location today, which is in some ways the point. The erasure is total and unremarked. The local Irish name for the beach preserves the memory where the landscape itself no longer can.