The ground is heavily overgrown, the boundaries formed on two sides by the roads themselves and on a third by an ordinary field fence. Nothing marks it to a passing eye as anything other than a neglected scrap of land caught in the angle of a junction.

The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 records it plainly as a Children's Burial Ground, which places it within a tradition found in many parts of Ireland. These sites, sometimes called cillíní, were used for the burial of unbaptised infants and others considered, under the customs of the time, ineligible for consecrated ground. Because the Catholic Church long withheld formal burial rites from unbaptised children, families turned to marginal spaces, liminal ground at the edges of roads, fields, or townlands, places neither fully domestic nor formally sacred. The Derryclogh site fits that pattern precisely: a thin sliver of land, triangular and awkward, bounded by roads on two sides as if the living world had simply grown around it. At roughly 54 metres long and no more than 10 metres wide at its broadest point, it is a small enclosure, and whatever burials it holds have left no visible trace above ground.

The absence of grave markers is not unusual for this type of site. Burials in cillíní were typically unaccompanied by formal monuments, and centuries of vegetation growth have further obscured whatever surface evidence may once have existed. The site sits at the roadside and would be easy to pass without recognition, which in some ways is the nature of these places, present in the landscape for a very long time, quietly documented on a map made nearly two centuries ago, and largely invisible to anyone who does not already know to look.