These sites, known in Irish as cillíní, were traditionally used for the interment of unbaptised infants and others who, under Catholic practice, could not be buried in consecrated ground. They are found across Ireland, often on marginal land, clifftops, or shorelines, and this one is more exposed than most. The Atlantic does not observe the boundary.

When the site was first formally recorded, in February 1984, it presented as an unenclosed roughly L-shaped area, approximately 26 metres north to south and 20 metres east to west. Small granite boulders, set into the ground, marked individual burials across the interior. By January 2018, after a succession of winter storms had deposited large quantities of storm material across the site, even its outer limits had become difficult to read. A number of stone-lined family plots remained visible, indicating that the ground had been used into relatively recent times. The most affecting detail to emerge from the storms, however, appeared earlier: following severe weather in late 2013 and early 2014, a graveslab was uncovered on the foreshore. Inscribed and dated 1860, it commemorated two sisters, one aged three years, the other just one month old. As of 2018, the slab was still lying there, exposed, at the water's edge.