A rath is a circular earthwork enclosure, typically of early medieval date, built as a farmstead or place of refuge. The fact that a children's burial ground occupies part of one speaks to a particular strand of Irish practice: the use of liminal, anciently bounded spaces for the interment of unbaptised infants, who under older Catholic convention could not be buried in consecrated ground.

The burial ground itself is barely two metres across in either direction, a roughly square patch of densely overgrown ground in which a number of small set stones mark individual graves. These are the characteristic markers of a cillín, the Irish term for an informal children's burial ground, typically established at the margins of the parish, at field boundaries, or within the earthworks of older monuments. The site at Gloves Middle was recorded by Cody in 1989, and its association with the rath beneath it suggests the space carried some sense of separateness or antiquity that made it suitable, in local eyes, for this sorrowful purpose.

The site is very small and heavily overgrown, which means the stones are easily missed even at close range. The modest scale is itself part of what makes it significant: these were not grand memorials but quiet, deliberate acts of remembrance carried out by families who had no other recourse.