This one, in Kilcurly in the barony of Kenry, County Limerick, is one such place: a children's burial ground, known in Irish tradition as a cillín, where infants who died unbaptised were laid to rest outside the bounds of consecrated ground. Catholic doctrine, as it stood for centuries, held that unbaptised children could not be buried in the parish churchyard, and so communities found their own places, typically at field margins, old ringfort interiors, or gentle slopes like this one, where the ground was quietly set aside.

The site sits on a gently south-facing slope and takes a roughly sub-rectangular form, measuring approximately sixteen metres north to south and fifteen metres east to west. It is defined by a scarp edge, a low but distinct drop in the ground surface, around seventy centimetres high, with a low earthen bank running along the outer edge from the north-west around to the east. The interior remains under pasture. The details were recorded by Denis Power and uploaded in August 2011, part of the broader work of documenting these often overlooked features of the Irish landscape before they are lost to agriculture, development, or simple forgetting.

The site lies within a working pastoral field, so access is not guaranteed and permission from the landowner would be the sensible first step. There is nothing obviously dramatic to see once you arrive; the scarp edge and earthen bank are modest features, easy to miss if you are not looking carefully. What rewards attention is the scale, or rather the smallness of the enclosure, and the way the bank curves around it with an unmistakable deliberateness. The south-facing aspect is typical of these sites, likely chosen for practical as much as symbolic reasons. The interior shows no surface markers, as is common with cilliní, where burial was rarely recorded in any formal way.