Densely overgrown and unremarkable to a passing eye, it is known locally as a burial ground for children who died during the Famine, a quiet and almost entirely unmarked piece of ground carrying an enormous weight of history.

Places of this kind belong to a wider Irish tradition of cillíní, unofficial burial grounds used for those who could not, under Catholic practice of the time, be interred in consecrated ground. Unbaptised infants and stillborn children were typically among those laid here, at the margins of parishes and roadsides, in liminal spaces that were neither fully sacred nor entirely forgotten. The Oldcourt site appears to have served this purpose, and a source from 1902 records a detail that lodges in the imagination: a small door in the wall that once provided access for burials. By the time that account was written, the door had already become part of local memory rather than active use, and a later examination of the roadside wall found no surviving opening. The hollow itself remains, bounded to the south by the road, its contents invisible beneath the vegetation.