These sites, known in Irish tradition as cillíní, were places where unbaptised infants and others excluded from consecrated burial were interred outside the formal rites of the Church. The presence of a medieval structure here gives the site a layered quality: a place already ancient when it began receiving those whose deaths went largely unrecorded.

The church itself is a medieval foundation, now roofless and reduced, as most such rural structures in the west of Ireland are. Around it, several stone gravemarkers remain visible, though none carry inscriptions. That absence is itself telling. The unmarked stone, set into the ground without a name or date, was the common language of these marginal burials, a way of marking presence without the formality of memorial. In a site like this, the stones speak less to individual identity than to the quiet persistence of a community's grief, repeated across generations in the same corner of the same field.