The oval is heavily overgrown, its edges undefined by any wall or fence, and scattered across it are stones set into the earth at no particular angle and in no particular order. They mark graves, but the graves belong to children.

This is a killeen, a type of informal burial ground found across Ireland, used for infants and unbaptised children who, under older Catholic practice, were excluded from consecrated ground. The word killeen derives from the Irish "cillín", a small church or burial enclosure, though many such sites have no ecclesiastical structure at all, just ground that communities quietly designated for those the formal Church would not receive. What makes this particular killeen unusual is its setting. It occupies the south-eastern quadrant of a possible henge, a class of prehistoric monument typically consisting of a circular or oval enclosure defined by a ditch and external bank, associated with ceremonial or ritual activity in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The relationship between the two is not documented in any detail, but the overlap is striking. Whether the community who began burying their children here knew they were placing them within an ancient ritual space, or whether the logic was simply that unconsecrated ground was unconsecrated ground, is not recorded.

The stones themselves offer no alignments, no rows, no clusters suggesting family groupings. They appear placed individually, each one marking a separate loss, accumulating over time without any organising principle beyond proximity. It is a landscape of private grief with no explanatory structure, sitting inside a monument whose original purpose was perhaps not so different.