What makes it unusual is not simply its age or its isolation, but the category of person it was made for: children. These sites, known in Irish as cilliní (singular cillín), were used for the burial of unbaptised infants and others considered to exist outside the formal rites of the Catholic Church. Excluded from consecrated ground, the dead were interred instead in liminal spaces, often at townland boundaries, beside ancient monuments, or on unremarkable hillslopes like this one. The grief attached to these places was largely silent, and many were left unmarked on official maps.

This particular ground appears to have been at least partially documented by the mid-nineteenth century. The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 depicts it as a trapezoidal area and names it explicitly as a Children's Burial Ground, which is unusually candid for a feature that many communities preferred not to publicise. By the time the revised six-inch map was produced in 1902, the depicted shape had changed to oval, suggesting either that the ground itself had altered, or that the surveyors were working from different observations or conventions. The enclosure as it survives today is subrectangular, measuring roughly twelve metres east to west and eighteen metres north to south, defined by a scarp approximately 0.9 metres high. Grave markers survive in the northern half of the interior, though the nature and condition of those markers is not recorded in detail.