Nothing at ground level marks it out from the surrounding pasture. Yet the 1913 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map names it clearly: Black Grave Yard, a roughly rectangular area measuring approximately 70 metres along its north-west to south-east axis and around 40 metres across. The name alone carries a particular weight. In Irish rural tradition, a "black" designation often attached itself to places set apart from consecrated ground, carrying a quiet stigma that the landscape itself has since absorbed without trace.

Locally, the site is known as a children's burial ground. These places, sometimes called cilliní, were used across Ireland for the interment of unbaptised infants, who, under Catholic doctrine as it was then understood and practised, could not be buried in sanctified parish cemeteries. Families would instead bring their children to marginal spaces, old ringforts, the edges of townlands, or plots like this one, places that existed just outside the formal religious order of the community. The practice continued in some areas well into the twentieth century, and the sites themselves were rarely marked in any permanent way, which is part of why so many remain invisible to the casual eye while persisting vividly in local memory. That this one was significant enough to be recorded by name on an Ordnance Survey map a century ago suggests it was well known to those who lived around it, even if its use was never publicly acknowledged.