These places, known in Irish as cillíní (singular cillín), were used for centuries to inter unbaptised infants and others considered outside the boundaries of consecrated ground, including stillborn children, and occasionally suicides or strangers. Because Catholic doctrine once held that the unbaptised could not enter heaven, such individuals were barred from parish cemeteries, and so communities found marginal spaces, often ancient, liminal, or otherwise set apart, in which to lay them. The result is a scattered geography of grief, largely unmarked and frequently overlooked, that speaks to the pressures placed on ordinary families by institutional religious practice.