The site sits inside a rath, the Irish term for a ringfort, a circular earthen enclosure typically dating from the early medieval period and used as a farmstead or place of refuge. Local tradition holds that the interior of this particular rath served as a children's burial ground, known in Irish as a cillín, a practice that endured in rural Ireland well into the twentieth century. Unbaptised infants, stillborn children, and sometimes suicides or strangers were excluded from consecrated ground by church law, and so communities found other liminal spaces for their burial, often prehistoric sites, boundaries, or shorelines. The stones visible near the south-western bank may indicate where burials were placed, while further stones observed in the fosse, the ditch surrounding the rath, between its north-eastern and south-eastern arc, may be grave-markers that have shifted or been displaced over time. A possible souterrain, an underground stone-lined passage sometimes associated with early medieval raths and used for storage or refuge, is also recorded at the site, adding another layer to what lies beneath and around these earthworks.