Roughly twenty metres long and eight metres wide, it sits where the worked fields gave way to wilder ground, a placement that is not incidental. These are cillíní, the unofficial burial grounds found across Ireland where unbaptised infants and children were interred outside consecrated church ground. Catholic doctrine once held that the unbaptised could not enter heaven, and so parishes did not permit their burial in regular graveyards. Families responded by finding liminal places, boundaries and margins, the edges of fields, the meeting points of parishes, or spots like this one where cultivation ended and something else began.

The site is roughly rectangular, with traces of what may once have been an enclosing bank of stone and earth along its south-western edge. Within the area, numerous small stones are still visible, though many have shifted from their original positions over time. Some retain enough order to suggest the outlines of individual graves, aligned east to west in the manner of Christian burial, with a handful of head-stones and foot-stones still distinguishable among them. The small scale of the markers reflects the small scale of those buried here. There are no inscriptions recorded, no named individuals, no dates. The graves are identifiable mainly by their form and their grouping, quiet evidence of a practice that was widespread and yet rarely spoken of openly.

The ground itself carries a particular character. Set at the limit of former cultivation on a valley shelf, it occupies a position that feels deliberate, chosen for its remove from ordinary life and ordinary ground. The displaced stones and the faint traces of the enclosure speak to both the passage of time and the informality of a burial tradition that left little in the way of permanent markers.