Overgrown and irregular in shape, it is marked out only by the faint remains of a low drystone wall along its southern and western edges, and by a scatter of small upright stones within. These stones are the quiet signatures of a cillin, the Irish term for an unconsecrated burial ground used for unbaptised infants and others excluded, under Catholic practice, from burial in hallowed ground. Such places were typically located near early ecclesiastical sites, set just outside the boundary of sanctified earth, close enough to feel sheltered, but formally apart.

The site sits in the shadow of the oratory at Cill Ogúla, a place-name whose first element, cill, signals an early Christian foundation, likely a small monastic cell or church enclosure of early medieval origin. The pairing is not unusual in the Irish landscape: where there was a church, there was often a cillin nearby, used quietly and without ceremony for generations. What is unusual here is how little has changed. The drystone boundary, though fragmentary, still traces its original line. The upright stones, modest and uncut, remain where they were placed, their purpose unmarked by any inscription.