There is no maintained graveyard to speak of any longer, no enclosing wall intact, no tended plot. What survives is the wreckage of a place that was already marginal, a site defined by absence as much as by anything that remains.

This is a cillín, the Irish term for an informal, unconsecrated burial ground used historically for unbaptised infants and others considered ineligible for burial in sanctified church ground. Centuries of Catholic doctrine held that unbaptised children could not enter consecrated cemeteries, and so families buried them quietly in liminal spaces, old ringforts, field boundaries, and small enclosed plots like this one. The enclosure at Knockatee, recorded by Neary in 1914, appears to have been largely levelled by the time of more recent survey, with most of the surrounding structure gone and the grave-markers no longer in their original positions. The levelling was not ancient weathering but something more recent and deliberate, the kind of agricultural clearance that has erased countless such sites across the Irish countryside.