Overgrowth and land reclamation have swallowed whatever physical traces once marked it, leaving a site that is, by any practical measure, indistinguishable from the surrounding landscape. It appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 as 'Kill Burial Ground', and it is known locally as a children's burial ground, which places it within a category of site that once existed across Ireland in considerable numbers.

The 'kill' element in the place name derives from the Irish 'cill', meaning a small church or monastic cell, suggesting that religious activity of some kind preceded or accompanied the use of the ground for burial. Children's burial grounds, sometimes called cilliní, were used for infants who died before baptism and who, under the theological conventions of the time, were considered ineligible for consecrated ground. These sites were often located at the margins of parishes, near boundaries, old ringforts, or earlier sacred sites, and they tended to be quietly maintained outside the formal structures of the Church. The name recorded on the 1842 map suggests the site had already acquired a degree of official recognition by that point, even if its use remained largely informal and community-led.

Today the ground at Ballyoughtera holds nothing that a visitor could easily identify. The combination of scrub encroachment and land reclamation means that the physical fabric of the site, whatever it once comprised, has been lost to view. What remains is largely cartographic and oral: a name on an old map, a local memory of what the place was for.