No fence marks it off, no stones remain upright, and the ground gives nothing away to a passing eye. What survives is a cartographic ghost: a small circular area, roughly eight metres across, recorded on the third edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map in 1932, labelled for what it was and then, in material terms, forgotten.

This was a cillín, the Irish term for an informal, unconsecrated burial ground used for unbaptised infants, and sometimes for others who fell outside the rites of formal Catholic burial. Such places were typically sited apart from churchyards, often on old boundaries, beside raths, or in marginal land, and they operated quietly within communities for generations. At Cuddoo, local tradition described the area as nine yards square, with stones arranged around the edge and the interior left to grow over. No one, by the time the site was documented, could recall when it had last been used. That lapse of memory is itself telling: these grounds tended to pass out of use gradually, without ceremony, as the community practices that sustained them faded.