These are grave-markers, uninscribed and averaging only about thirty centimetres in height, numerous enough to leave little doubt about what this place once was. It is a cillín, the Irish term for an informal burial ground used historically for unbaptised children and others excluded from consecrated ground, and by the late nineteenth century it had already fallen out of use.

The platform itself is a substantial construction, running 17.5 metres in length and broadening from 7.5 metres wide at its eastern end to 12.5 metres at the west, where a modern field boundary now marks its edge. It rises up to a metre above the surrounding ground level. Two prominent slabs at the northern perimeter, standing a metre apart, may once have served as an entrance. Among the most intriguing details recorded here is a fragment of a quern-stone, a rotary grinding stone used for processing grain, noted among the graves by a researcher named Henry in 1957. Its presence in a burial context is the kind of small, unexplained detail that tends to linger. The fragment is no longer apparent at the site.