Three stones protrude above the ground and may once have served as grave-markers, but beyond that the site has been effectively erased from the surface. What catches the attention now is not the burials at all but something altogether different: a mass rock sitting at the centre of the ancient earthwork, a large roughly rectangular stone measuring around 2.35 metres long and 1.25 metres wide.

The burial ground belongs to a tradition found across Ireland of interring unbaptised children, and occasionally others excluded from consecrated ground, within the boundaries of older, pre-Christian enclosures. These sites are known in Irish as cillíní, and they reflect centuries of quiet, unofficial practice that rarely left documentary traces. The ringfort itself, a circular raised enclosure of the early medieval period, would have predated the burials by many centuries. The mass rock adds a further layer of history: such stones were used during the Penal era, when Catholic worship was suppressed in Ireland, as makeshift outdoor altars at which priests could celebrate Mass in secret. This particular example had been lost, submerged or obscured near the shores of Lough Altore, and was only recovered when drainage work on the lake brought it to light. It was then moved to its present position within the rath, which means the stone is not in its original location but has been given, in a sense, a second life at a site already layered with meaning.