No wall, no foundation course, no carved stone marks the ground. What points to the site at all is something quieter and more poignant: a children's burial ground that was, by all accounts, well used in days gone by.

The connection between the two features tells a particular story of Irish religious geography. The burial ground here is a cillín, a term for the informal, unconsecrated plots where unbaptised infants and others excluded from churchyard burial were laid to rest, typically sited near the ruins of early ecclesiastical enclosures. Writing in 1960, a scholar named Egan noted that the old church site at Kellysgrove could be inferred from exactly this kind of ground, the children's burial ground serving as the only surviving clue to what once stood nearby. The church itself has left nothing visible above the surface.