What marks it out is the presence of numerous small upright stones set into unenclosed ground, the kind of modest, deliberate arrangement that signals a cillin, the Irish tradition of burying unbaptised children and others excluded from consecrated ground. These burial places, found throughout Ireland, were located at liminal spots, field margins, townland boundaries, old ringforts, and shorelines, places that existed at the edge of the ecclesiastical order that had, in the eyes of the Church, no place for their small occupants.

The site sits at the western boundary of the townland of Doire an Fhéich, a name that translates roughly as the oakwood of the raven. The location detail and the description of the stones were recorded by Tim Robinson, the writer and cartographer whose meticulous mapping of Connemara and the Aran Islands in the 1980s brought dozens of such places to wider attention. His 1985 work documented this spot, noting the unenclosed plot and the visible set stones, though the site was not formally visited for the archaeological record. That absence of an enclosing wall is itself characteristic; cillíní were rarely bounded in the way a parish graveyard would be, which is part of why so many have been built over, ploughed away, or simply forgotten.