No headstones, no mounds, no markers of any kind survive in what is thought to be the interior of a ringfort, one of the circular enclosed settlements that were built across Ireland from the early medieval period onward. The land simply sits there, ordinary-looking, carrying its past without advertisement.

What is known about the site comes from the Ordnance Survey Field Book of 1838, which recorded local memory with some precision. At that time, people described the enclosure as "an old Danish fort", using the term that was commonly applied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to ancient earthworks whose true origins were poorly understood. The description noted that people had been buried within it, but that this practice had ceased around 1778, with one significant exception: unbaptised children continued to be interred there after that date. This detail places the site within a wider tradition found across Ireland, where infants who died before baptism were buried in liminal spaces, often old earthworks or boundary ground, rather than in consecrated churchyards. Such places were sometimes called cillíní, and they represent a quiet, sorrowful negotiation between official religious practice and local necessity. The Kilcaskan site appears to have served exactly this purpose, functioning as a place of last resort for families whose youngest children had no formal standing in the eyes of the Church.