No headstones, no kerbing, no inscribed slabs; nothing to mark individual graves. What survives is the site's designation on an Ordnance Survey six-inch map from 1842, where a cartographer recorded it plainly as "Burial Ground" and moved on.

The location inside a ringfort is not as unusual as it might first appear. Ringforts, circular enclosures typically defined by an earthen bank and ditch, were built primarily as farmsteads during the early medieval period, roughly the fifth to twelfth centuries, and they are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape. After they fell out of use, many acquired a secondary life in local tradition as charged or liminal places, sometimes associated with the fairies, sometimes repurposed for burial. The practice of interring the dead within or beside an older enclosure was not uncommon, particularly for unbaptised infants, who were often excluded from consecrated ground and buried instead in these older, pre-Christian spaces. Whether that was the case at Cloonaghlin is not recorded. The 1842 map marks it without elaboration, and no gravemarkers have been noted since.