The crossroads carried the name "crossnaleanbh", an Irish-language placename that points directly at this history, "leanbh" being the Irish word for child, suggesting the site may have been associated with the burial of unbaptised infants. In rural Ireland, crossroads were frequently used for such burials, since children who died before baptism were considered ineligible for consecrated ground and were interred instead in liminal spaces: boundaries, thresholds, and the margins of fields.

The specific spot in question was a grassy triangle at the centre of the junction, the kind of small, awkward island of land that forms naturally where roads meet at an angle. That triangle, and whatever it may once have contained, is now sealed beneath tarmac. The burial ground at Crossmahon survives, then, only as a placename and a piece of local memory, the physical evidence having been quietly erased by road surfacing at some point before the site was documented.