A cashel is a stone-walled circular enclosure of early medieval date, essentially a fortified farmstead, and inside the south-eastern sector of this one lies a roughly circular patch of ground, about nine metres across, strewn with limestone rubble. From it rise three parallel lines of upright limestone slabs, the tallest reaching around ninety centimetres, oriented north-west to south-east and spaced between one and one and a half metres apart. It has been identified as a possible children's burial ground, a cillín, the kind of informal, unconsecrated burial place used for unbaptised infants across Ireland for centuries. But there is a problem with that identification.

The slabs here are considerably larger than the modest, often barely-visible markers typically found at a cillín. That discrepancy has led to an alternative reading: that the three rows of stone might be the structural remnants of a building of some kind rather than, or perhaps as well as, a burial ground. The two uses need not be mutually exclusive; it was not uncommon for already-meaningful or sheltered spaces within older enclosures to be repurposed over time for the quiet, unofficial burial of infants who fell outside the Church's sacramental reach. Adding to the complexity of the site is a souterrain immediately to the north-west. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, usually associated with early medieval settlement and likely used for storage or refuge. The clustering of these features, the cashel, the ambiguous stone rows, and the underground passage, suggests a place with a long and layered history of use, even if the precise nature of each element remains uncertain.