The 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map marks it clearly enough: a subcircular area roughly ten metres across, outlined by a broken line and labelled "Children's Burial Ground". By the time the same map was revised in 1905, and again in 1935, it had been quietly dropped. No annotation, no explanation. Today there is no visible surface trace at all.

Places of this kind were once a feature of the Irish countryside far more commonly than is now remembered. Known as cillíní (the singular is cillín), they served as informal burial grounds for unbaptised infants, who were excluded from consecrated ground under Catholic Church practice. They were often located at liminal spots, field margins, ancient earthworks, or, as here, close to a holy well. The well at Kilcanway lies roughly 150 metres to the south-east, and the proximity is unlikely to be coincidental; holy wells frequently marked older sacred topographies, and burials near them may reflect a layered understanding of sanctity that predates the formal parish system. The scholar Power, writing in 1932, connected the Kilcanway site with two early ecclesiastical place-names recorded in the medieval territorial text known as Crichad an Chaoilli: Cill Cuili and Cill O nGeibinnain. If that identification is correct, the ground where children were quietly laid to rest may overlie, or at least neighbour, a much older Christian site of some local significance, one whose name survived in a medieval document long after any physical trace had gone.