This is a cillín, the Irish term for an unconsecrated burial ground traditionally used for unbaptised infants, and sometimes for others considered ineligible for burial in sanctified soil. Such sites are scattered across the Irish landscape, often overlooked precisely because they were designed, by the logic of their time, to sit outside official memory.

The enclosure measures approximately twenty metres north to south and sixteen metres east to west. Modern field walls now form its northern and western boundaries, but tucked along the inner face of the northern wall a section of the original enclosing bank survives: eight metres long, constructed with coursed stone facing around a rubble core, still standing around sixty centimetres above the surrounding ground. The grave-markers themselves cluster in the south-western quadrant, arranged generally in rows, plain and purposeful. In the south-eastern quadrant, a roughly circular area of collapsed stone may represent the remains of a hut site, suggesting the ground had a longer or more complex history of use before it became a place of quiet burial. The site was documented as part of the archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, the broad thumb of land that carries the Ring of Kerry, published by Cork University Press in 1996.