No stone, no hollow, no worn path marks the spot where children were once interred. The only evidence that anything lies beneath came when part of an earthwork was levelled and small bones emerged from the disturbed soil. What had been carried in local memory was, in that moment, confirmed by the ground itself.

The site is what is known as a cillín, or children's burial ground, a category of place found widely across Ireland where infants and unbaptised children were traditionally laid to rest outside the bounds of consecrated churchyards. These were liminal spaces, often chosen with deliberate care: old earthworks, boundary ditches, the margins of fields. Here, the chosen spot was the outer bank of a ringfort, a roughly circular enclosure of raised earth typical of early medieval Ireland, used as a farmstead or place of settlement. The particular ringfort at Cappaveha carries its own separate designation, and the burial ground is understood to have occupied the south-western portion of its outer bank. When that section of the bank was levelled, the small bones recovered there confirmed what tradition had long held to be true. Beyond that disturbance, no surface trace survives.