There is nothing to mark the spot to a passing eye, no mound, no stone, no surviving enclosure. What is known comes from a combination of local memory and cartographic detective work: the site does not appear on Ordnance Survey maps from 1842 or 1905, but by 1937 it had been recorded as a small oval area, roughly twelve metres across from east-northeast to west-southwest and about eight metres in the perpendicular direction, indicated on the map by a broken line, the cartographic convention for something uncertain or partly defined.

Local tradition identifies this as a famine burial ground, a place where people who died during the Great Famine of the 1840s were interred, often hastily and with minimal resources, outside the formal structures of parish cemeteries. According to that tradition, a timber railing once enclosed eight graves, with a further six burials lying outside it. A note recorded by Bowman in 1934 counted six famine graves at the site. The discrepancy between these figures is not unusual for places of this kind, where documentation was sparse at the time of burial and later accounts depend on inherited knowledge passed down through local families rather than any official register. The modest oval dimensions and the informal timber enclosure both fit a pattern seen elsewhere in Ireland, where famine dead were sometimes gathered into small, makeshift plots on private land rather than in consecrated ground.