On the Ordnance Survey maps of 1841 to 1842, this circular earthwork in Kilteean was recorded as a Kyle Burial Ground for Children, a designation that speaks to a particular and sorrowful category of Irish sacred space. By the time a later map was drawn up in 1939, the label had vanished entirely, leaving only an unmarked enclosure. The ground itself, however, remained.

A kyle, in this context, is thought to derive from the Irish word for a narrow or wooded place, though in practice such names became attached to unconsecrated burial grounds used for unbaptised infants, known more widely as cilliní. These sites, scattered across the Irish landscape, occupy a peculiar position: neither fully within the Church nor entirely outside it, they were places where communities buried the children who could not, under Catholic practice, be interred in consecrated ground. The enclosure at Kilteean takes the form of a roughly circular earthen bank, measuring about 27 metres across internally on the north to south axis and 30 metres externally. The bank itself is an interesting piece of minor earthwork engineering: steep on the outside, gently sloping inward, standing about 1.5 metres high from the exterior and slightly taller when measured from within. Three gaps interrupt the bank, one to the west about 2 metres wide, one to the east around 4 metres wide, and a much wider opening of 8 metres to the south-south-west, which may represent a later or more heavily used entrance.

The physical measurements and the change in cartographic designation between the two maps are documented in C. Toal's North Kerry Archaeological Survey, published in 1995, which catalogued this site alongside the broader archaeology of the region. What the survey cannot fully convey is the human weight of a place that served as a burial ground for children considered, by the customs of their time, to exist in a kind of liturgical limbo. The enclosure survives as a legible earthwork, its bank still well-defined, its three entrances still open to the surrounding landscape.