Some of the stones are partially swallowed by grass, and the northern edge of the enclosure, roughly seventeen metres across at its widest east-west extent, is defined by a field wall rather than anything more formal. The site belongs to a category of burial place known in Irish as a cillín, where unbaptised infants and others considered ineligible for churchyard burial were interred, often quietly and without ceremony, in marginal or liminal landscapes.

According to local memory, this particular ground was still being used into the early 1930s, which places it well into the twentieth century and underscores how long such practices persisted in rural Ireland, long after they had faded from official record or ecclesiastical acknowledgement. The choice of marshy, low-lying land was not accidental; cillíní were typically sited at the edges of things, at boundaries between fields, beside water, or on older sacred or prehistoric ground. Here, the proximity to a rath, a circular earthwork enclosure of early medieval origin, lying around 225 metres to the north-east, suggests the landscape already carried some older significance before the children's burial ground came into use. Whether that adjacency was deliberate or simply a reflection of how meaning accumulates in a landscape over centuries is not something the surviving stones can answer.