At Dunmurraghill in County Kildare, there is a graveyard that leaves almost no trace of itself. No headstones, no kerbing, no inscribed slabs; just ground associated with a now-vanished church, and a name that carries more weight than it might first appear.

The site was recorded in the Ordnance Survey Letters (compiled by Michael Herity in 2005) under the name Reilicin, a diminutive of the Irish word reilig, meaning graveyard. That diminutive form is significant. Across Ireland, the term reilicín was commonly applied to the small, informal burial plots used for unbaptised infants, who, under Catholic doctrine, were excluded from consecrated ground and interred instead in liminal spaces: beside church ruins, at field boundaries, on the margins of established cemeteries. These sites are sometimes called cillíní, and they are found throughout the country, often unmarked and easy to overlook. The name Reilicin at Dunmurraghill suggests this graveyard may have served a similar purpose, though the documentary record stops short of confirming it outright. What is clear is that no burial markers survive above ground today.