Marked by an area of small set boulders enclosed within a low, slight wall, it sits to the northwest of the local new graveyard, quietly separate from it. That separation is deliberate, and it speaks to a practice that was once widespread across Ireland.

The site is known locally as Cnocán na Leanbh, meaning the little hill of the children. It is what is commonly called a cillín, an informal burial ground used for unbaptised infants, and sometimes for others considered ineligible for consecrated ground. Because the Catholic Church historically denied church burial to those who died without baptism, families turned to liminal spaces, places at the margins of parish life, near the shore, on the edges of fields, beside ancient earthworks. These sites are found across Ireland in their hundreds, often unmarked on maps, known mainly through local memory. The small boulders at Cnocán na Leanbh are a typical feature; individual stones sometimes mark individual graves, though the full extent of any such site is rarely recoverable. The cartographer and writer Tim Robinson, whose meticulous surveys of Connemara and the Aran Islands documented an extraordinary range of local knowledge, provided the description of this site in his 1985 work.

The hillock sits close to the shore, which itself gives the place a particular quality. Coastal cillíní are not uncommon in the west of Ireland, where the sea was understood as a threshold of its own kind. The slight enclosing wall separates the children's ground from the open land around it without making it formally bounded in the way a churchyard would be. Little else is recorded about Cnocán na Leanbh, and the site was not visited at the time it was catalogued, so its present condition is not documented.