No mound, no marker, no kerbing or hollow in the earth gives it away. It is there only in the record, a place that once had a name and a use, and has since been absorbed entirely back into the landscape.

The site is a cillín, the type of small, informal burial ground used in Ireland for unbaptised children, sometimes also for adults who died outside the rites of the Church. These plots were typically located apart from consecrated ground, often within or beside older earthwork enclosures, at boundaries, or near water. This particular one sat within an enclosure, and the early Ordnance Survey maps, both the first edition and the 1899 second edition, recorded it under the name Lisheen, a diminutive of the Irish word lios, meaning a ring-fort or earthen enclosure. That name alone tells you something about how the site was understood by those who mapped it: a small, bounded place, associated with an older feature in the ground. By the time the archaeology of County Galway was formally inventoried in the early 1990s, no visible surface trace of the cillín survived.