These stones, arranged in the centre and southern sector of the ringfort's interior, are the only visible evidence of what was once a deliberate, if quietly sorrowful, use of this ancient enclosure. The combination of the two site types is not accidental. In Ireland, children's burial grounds, known in Irish as cillíní, were frequently placed at the margins of the official Christian world, in liminal spaces such as ringforts, cave mouths, or unconsecrated ground. Infants who died before baptism were traditionally denied burial in consecrated churchyards, and so communities found other places for them, often choosing sites already set apart from the ordinary landscape.

Ringforts themselves are circular enclosures defined by an earthen bank and ditch, built predominantly during the early medieval period, roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries. They served primarily as farmsteads, and thousands survive across Ireland in varying states of preservation. The one at Scotland townland, recorded as GA018-059, was noted by Knight around 1975 as the location of this cillín, with the small set stones being the sole above-ground markers of the burials within. The pairing of a prehistoric or early medieval enclosure with a post-medieval burial practice is a pattern found elsewhere in Ireland, where the pre-existing strangeness or separateness of a ringfort made it feel like an appropriate, if unofficial, resting place.