Small stones set into the ground mark graves oriented east to west, the traditional Christian alignment of the dead facing the rising sun. Some of the graves are rectangular in outline, while the overall area, a D-shaped raised ground roughly 24 metres north to south and 18 metres east to west, is partially bounded by the bank of the enclosure it sits within.

This is a cillín, a word used in Ireland for an unconsecrated burial ground set apart from the main parish cemetery. Such places received those who, by the rules of the institutional Church, could not be buried in consecrated ground: unbaptised infants, most commonly, but also stillborn children, and at various points in history, strangers, suicides, and others considered outside the sacramental community. The practice was widespread across Ireland from the early medieval period well into the twentieth century, and these sites often occupy older enclosures, ringforts, or liminal ground at parish boundaries. The enclosure at Curraghaderry, recorded as GA004-024, provided exactly that kind of ancient, marginal space, its pre-existing bank folding the burial ground into a landscape already layered with earlier human use.

The site sits within the wider enclosure rather than at its centre, tucked into the western edge as though deliberately placed at a remove. The small set stones that mark the graves are not formal headstones but field stones, the kind of quiet, unlettered marking that characterises cilliní across the country, where official commemoration was neither expected nor available.