There are no markers, no mounds, no visible trace of graves. Only local tradition holds the memory of what this place once was.

The site occupies the interior of a rath, a type of circular enclosure built in early medieval Ireland, typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, and most commonly associated with rural settlement and farmstead activity. That such enclosures were later repurposed as burial grounds for unbaptised children was a widespread practice across Ireland, rooted in Catholic theological convention that denied formal church burial to infants who died before baptism. These informal burial places, known variously as killeens or cillíní, were often sited at the margins of the settled world: old earthworks, boundaries, shorelines, unconsecrated ground. The choice of a rath was not accidental. These ancient features already carried an aura of otherness in folk belief, associated with the supernatural and set apart from ordinary life, which may have made them feel appropriate, or at least acceptable, for children who occupied a similarly liminal position in the theological imagination.

At Ballyglass, nothing marks the ground as different from the earthwork surrounding it. The absence of visible graves is not unusual for sites of this kind, where burials were shallow, informal, and unaccompanied by headstones or permanent markers. What persists is the local knowledge itself, passed down and recorded, that this quiet enclosure holds more than it shows.