Moss-covered rocks protrude through the undergrowth, and where livestock have worn a small gap along the southern edge, the ground inside sits noticeably raised above the surrounding pasture. That raised interior, combined with the stones pushing up through the soil, points quietly but unmistakably toward what this place is: a burial ground for unbaptised children.

These sites are known in Irish as cillíní, and they occupy a particular, melancholy corner of Irish social and religious history. Because Catholic doctrine long held that unbaptised infants could not be interred in consecrated ground, families buried them instead in liminal places, spaces that sat outside the sanctioned landscape: old ringforts, the edges of fields, early medieval enclosures, or dedicated plots like this one in Ardbooly. The site was already well established enough by the mid-nineteenth century to be formally recorded, appearing by name as "Burial Ground for Children" on the 1842 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, and as "Children's Burial Ground" on later OS historic mapping. The enclosure itself is a long oval, roughly 36 metres east to west and 19 metres north to south, defined along the eastern, southern, and western edges by a low earthen scarp incorporating large stones. The northern upslope edge is less clearly defined, though moss-covered rocks can still be detected beneath the briar cover.

The site sits in open pasture with open views across a gently undulating landscape to the east, south, and west, though slightly higher ground closes things in a little to the south. Access to the interior is almost entirely blocked by the density of the thorn growth, and the moss-covered rocks visible in the one small accessible section along the southern edge are likely all that most visitors will ever see of what lies within.